Cosmological signatures of a UV-conformal standard model

Quantum scale invariance in the UV has been recently advocated as an attractive way of solving the gauge hierarchy problem arising in the standard model. We explore the cosmological signatures at the electroweak scale when the breaking of scale invariance originates from a hidden sector and is media...

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Published inPhysical review letters Vol. 113; no. 12; p. 121801
Main Authors Dorsch, Glauber C, Huber, Stephan J, No, Jose Miguel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 19.09.2014
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Summary:Quantum scale invariance in the UV has been recently advocated as an attractive way of solving the gauge hierarchy problem arising in the standard model. We explore the cosmological signatures at the electroweak scale when the breaking of scale invariance originates from a hidden sector and is mediated to the standard model by gauge interactions (gauge mediation). These scenarios, while being hard to distinguish from the standard model at LHC, can give rise to a strong electroweak phase transition leading to the generation of a large stochastic gravitational wave signal in possible reach of future space-based detectors such as eLISA and BBO. This relic would be the cosmological imprint of the breaking of scale invariance in nature.
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.121801