PT Journal
AU Huang, F
   Sanz, V
   Shu, J
   Xue, X
TI LIGO as a probe of dark sectors
SO Physical Review D
JI Phys. Rev. D
PY 2021
BP 095001
EP 9pp
VL 104
IS 10
DI 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.095001
LA English
AB We show how current LIGO data is able to probe interesting theories beyond the Standard Model, particularly dark sectors where a dark Higgs boson triggers symmetry breaking via a first-order phase transition. We use publicly available LIGO O2 data to illustrate how these sectors, even if disconnected from the Standard Model, can be probed by gravitational wave detectors. We link the LIGO measurements with the model content and mass scale of the dark sector, finding that current O2 data are testing a broad set of scenarios that can be mapped into many different types of dark-sector models where the breaking of SU(N) theories with Nf fermions is triggered by a dark Higgs boson at scales ? similar or equal to 108-109 GeV with reasonable parameters for the scalar potential.
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