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Mitsuru Kakizaki

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arXiv2025

Classifying extended Higgs models through the trilinear Higgs boson coupling measurement at future colliders

We investigate the trilinear Higgs boson coupling derived from the functional forms of various extended Higgs potentials. In light of experimental constraints on Higgs boson couplings, we focus on extended Higgs models in which the trilinear Higgs boson coupling is predominantly determined by the Standard Model (SM) Higgs field. Such models include the nearly aligned Higgs effective field theory, classically scale-invariant models, pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson scenarios, tadpole-induced models, and others. We also consider higher-order corrections, including top quark and new particle contributions that are often neglected, and discuss their impact on the trilinear Higgs boson coupling. Finally, we show to what extent the functional forms of the Higgs potentials can be probed at future colliders.

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arXiv2022

Phenomenological constraints on light mixed sneutrino dark matter scenarios

In supersymmetric models with Dirac neutrinos, the lightest sneutrino can be an excellent thermal dark matter candidate when the soft sneutrino trilinear parameter is large. We focus on scenarios where the mass of the mixed sneutrino is of the order of GeV and sensitivity of dark matter direct detection is weak. We investigate phenomenological constraints on the model parameter space including the vacuum stability bound. We show that the allowed regions can be explored by measuring Higgs boson properties at future collider experiments.

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arXiv2022

Dark Radiation in Spectator Axion-Gauge Models

In the framework of axion-gauge fields models, primordial gravitational wave perturbations could be generated during the inflationary epoch from not only the quantum fluctuation of gravitons but also the dynamics of hidden gauge fields coupled with an axion field. We investigate the evolution of the axion and the gauge field of an additional hidden SU(2) gauge group and those energy densities during and after the inflation. We show that the extra radiation component of the hidden gauge bosons produced by the axion decay can be sizable in the cases where the gauge fields sourced additional gravitational waves is subdominant. We point out that future measurements of the dark radiation energy, such as CMB-S4, can impose significant constraints on this cosmological scenario.

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arXiv2021

Higgs potential in gauge-Higgs unification with a flat extra dimension

We analyze the structure of the Higgs potential in gauge-Higgs unification with a flat extra dimension. As a concrete model, we first consider the cases where the Standard Model Higgs doublet is embedded into a higher-dimensional $SU(3)_{w}^{}$ gauge multiplet with five-dimensional Lorentz symmetry relaxed. In this $SU(3)_{w}^{}$ model with Lorentz violation, the deviation of the resulting triple Higgs boson coupling from its SM prediction is shown to be less than $10\%$ when the compactification scale is larger than the experimental lower bound, which is around 5 TeV. Next, we examine the Higgs potential in other similar gauge-Higgs unification models with a flat extra dimension. It is pointed out that even in such models the shape of the Higgs potential around the vacuum quickly approaches that of the minimal Higgs potential with one Higgs doublet as the compactification scale of the extra dimension increases. An observable deviation of the triple Higgs boson coupling at planned lepton colliders will necessitate significant extensions of such gauge-Higgs unification models.

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arXiv2018

Fingerprinting models of first-order phase transitions by the synergy between collider and gravitational-wave experiments

We investigate the sensitivity of future space-based interferometers such as LISA and DECIGO to the parameters of new particle physics models which drive a first-order phase transition in the early Universe. We first perform a Fisher matrix analysis on the quantities characterizing the gravitational wave spectrum resulting from the phase transition, such as the peak frequency and amplitude. We next perform a Fisher analysis for the quantities which determine the properties of the phase transition, such as the latent heat and the time dependence of the bubble nucleation rate. Since these quantities are determined by the model parameters of the new physics, we can estimate the expected sensitivities to such parameters. We illustrate this point by taking three new physics models for example: (1) models with additional isospin singlet scalars (2) a model with an extra real Higgs singlet, and (3) a classically conformal $B-L$ model. We find that future gravitational wave observations play complementary roles to future collider experiments in pinning down the parameters of new physics models driving a first-order phase transition.

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arXiv2018

Gravitational waves from first order electroweak phase transition in models with the $U(1)_X^{}$ gauge symmetry

We consider a standard model extension equipped with a dark sector where the $U(1)_X^{}$ Abelian gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken by the dark Higgs mechanism. In this framework, we investigate patterns of the electroweak phase transition as well as those of the dark phase transition, and examine detectability of gravitational waves (GWs) generated by such strongly first order phase transition. It is pointed out that the collider bounds on the properties of the discovered Higgs boson exclude a part of parameter space that could otherwise generate detectable GWs. After imposing various constraints on this model, it is shown that GWs produced by multi-step phase transitions are detectable at future space-based interferometers, such as LISA and DECIGO, if the dark photon is heavier than 25 GeV. Furthermore, we discuss the complementarity of dark photon searches or dark matter searches with the GW observations in these models with the dark gauge symmetry.

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arXiv2017

Report by the Committee on the Scientific Case of the ILC Operating at 250 GeV as a Higgs Factory

This document is the final report by the Committee on the Scientific Case of the ILC Operating at 250 GeV as a Higgs Factory. This committee was commissioned by the Japan Association of High Energy Physicists. The purpose of this committee is to investigate and compare the capability to determine the energy scale of new phenomena and new principles and the capability to uncover the origin of matter-antimatter asymmetry.

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arXiv2017

Phenomenological signatures of mixed complex scalar WIMP dark matter

We discuss phenomenological aspects of models whose scalar sector is extended by an isospin doublet scalar and a complex singlet scalar as an effective theory of supersymmetric models with mixed sneutrinos. In such models, the lighter of the mixed neutral scalars can become a viable dark matter candidate by imposing a U(1) symmetry. We find that the thermal WIMP scenario is consistent with the cosmological dark matter abundance when the mass of the scalar is half of that of the discovered Higgs boson or larger than around 100 GeV. We also point out that, with an additional isospin singlet Majorana fermion mediator, even the mass of the scalar WIMP less than around 5 GeV is compatible with the observed dark matter abundance. We show that such cosmologically allowed regions can be explored at future collider experiments and dark matter detections.

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arXiv2016

Thermal relic abundance of the lightest Kaluza-Klein particle in phenomenological universal extra dimension models

Universal extra dimension models with Kaluza-Klein parity provide us excellent candidates for dark matter. We consider phenomenological universal extra dimension models where the Kaluza-Klein (KK) mass spectrum is different from that of the minimal universal extra dimension model, and compute the thermal relic abundance of the first KK mode of the photon taking into account the production of second KK particles. It is pointed out that its thermal relic abundance depends significantly on the mass degeneracy between the KK-photon and other KK particles because of considerable coannihilation effects. The cosmologically favored compactification scale is shown to range from around 1 TeV to a few TeV even in the cases where one of the first KK particles is tightly degenerate with the first KK photon in mass.

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arXiv2016

Gravitational waves and Higgs boson couplings for exploring first order phase transition in the model with a singlet scalar field

We calculate the spectrum of gravitational waves originated from strongly first order electroweak phase transition in the extended Higgs model with a real singlet field. In order to calculate the bubble nucleation rate, we perform a two-field analysis to evaluate bounce solutions connecting the true and the false vacua using the one-loop effective potential at finite temperatures. Imposing the Sakharov condition of the departure from thermal equilibrium for baryogenesis, we survey allowed regions of parameters of the model. We then investigate the gravitational waves produced at electroweak bubble collisions in the early Universe, such as the sound wave, the bubble wall collision and the plasma turbulence. We find that the strength at the peak frequency can be large enough to be detected at future space-based gravitational interferometers such as eLISA, DECIGO and BBO. Predicted deviations in the various Higgs boson couplings are also evaluated at the zero temperature, and are shown to be large enough too. Therefore, in this model strongly first order electroweak phase transition can be tested by the combination of the precision study of various Higgs boson couplings at LHC, the measurement of the triple Higgs boson coupling at future lepton colliders and the shape of the spectrum of gravitational wave detectable at future gravitational interferometers.

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arXiv2016

Synergy between measurements of the gravitational wave and the triple Higgs coupling in probing first order phase transition

Probing the Higgs potential and new physics behind the electroweak symmetry breaking is one of the most important issues of particle physics. In particular, nature of electroweak phase transition is essential for understanding physics at the early Universe, such that the strongly first order phase transition is required for a successful scenario of electroweak baryogenesis. The strongly first order phase transition is expected to be tested by precisely measuring the triple Higgs boson coupling at future colliders like the International Linear Collider. It can also be explored via the spectrum of stochastic gravitational waves to be measured at future space-based interferometers such as eLISA and DECIGO. We discuss complementarity of both the methods in testing the strongly first order phase transition of the electroweak symmetry in models with additional isospin singlet scalar fields with and without classical scale invariance. We find that they are synergetic in identifying specific models of electroweak symmetry breaking in more details.

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arXiv2015

Gravitational waves as a probe of extended scalar sectors with the first order electroweak phase transition

We discuss spectra of gravitational waves which are originated by the strongly first order phase transition at the electroweak symmetry breaking, which is required for a successful scenario of electroweak baryogenesis. Such spectra are numerically evaluated without high temperature expansion in a set of extended scalar sectors with additional N isospin-singlet fields as a concrete example of renormalizable theories. We find that the produced gravitational waves can be significant, so that they are detectable at future gravitational wave interferometers such as DECIGO and BBO. Furthermore, since the spectra strongly depend on N and the mass of the singlet fields, our results indicate that future detailed observation of gravitational waves can be in general a useful probe of extended scalar sectors with the first order phase transition.

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arXiv2015

Indirect reach of heavy MSSM Higgs bosons by precision measurements at future lepton colliders

In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), the bottom Yukawa coupling of the Higgs boson can considerably deviate from its Standard Model prediction due to non-decoupling effects. We point out that the ratio of the Higgs boson decay branching fraction to a bottom quark pair and that to a $W$-boson pair from the same production channel is particularly sensitive to large additional MSSM Higgs boson mass regions at future electron-positron colliders. Based on this precision measurement, we explicitly show the indirect discovery reach of the additional Higgs bosons according to planned programs of the International Linear Collider.

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arXiv2014

Higgs Phenomenology of the Supersymmetric Grand Unification with the Hosotani Mechanism

The supersymmetric SU(5) grand unified theory with the gauge symmetry broken by the Hosotani mechanism naturally solves the mass hierarchy problem between the colored Higgs triplet and the electroweak Higgs doublet, and predicts the existence of adjoint chiral superfields with masses of the order of the supersymmetry breaking scale as a byproduct. In addition to the two SU(2)_L Higgs doublets of the minimal supersymmetric standard model, the Higgs sector is extended by an SU(2)_L triplet chiral supermultiplet with hypercharge zero and a neutral singlet one. Such new triplet and singlet chiral supermultiplets deviate the standard model-like Higgs boson couplings and the additional Higgs boson masses from their Standard Model predictions. We show that this model can be distinguished from other new physics models using by precisely measuring such Higgs couplings and masses, and that our model is a good example of grand unification testable at the luminosity up-graded Large Hadron Collider and future electron-positron colliders.

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arXiv2014

Higgs Phenomenology as a Probe of Supersymmetric Grand Unification with the Hosotani Mechanism

In the supersymmetric SU(5) grand unified theory whose gauge symmetry is broken by virtue of the Hosotani mechanism, the huge mass splitting between the colored Higgs triplet and the electroweak Higgs doublet superfields is naturally realized. As a byproduct, the existence of adjoint chiral superfields with masses of the order of the supersymmetry breaking scale is predicted, leading to the Higgs sector that contains an SU(2)_L triplet chiral multiplet with hypercharge zero and a neutral singlet one in addition to the two SU(2)_L doublets of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We focus on the Higgs sector and investigate to what extent the couplings of the standard model-like Higgs boson and the masses of the additional Higgs bosons deviate from those in the Standard Model and other models due to the new triplet and singlet chiral multiplets. We show that this model can be distinguished using precision measurements of couplings and masses of the Higgs sector particles and serves as a good example of grand unification testable at colliders such as the luminosity up-graded Large Hadron Collider and future electron-positron colliders.

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arXiv2014

Higgs as a Probe of Supersymmetric Grand Unification with the Hosotani Mechanism

The supersymmetric grand unified theory where the SU(5) gauge symmetry is broken by the Hosotani mechanism predicts the existence of adjoint chiral superfields whose masses are at the supersymmetry breaking scale. The Higgs sector is extended with the SU(2)_L triplet with hypercharge zero and neutral singlet chiral multiplets from that in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. Since the triplet and singlet chiral multiplets originate from a higher-dimensional vector multiplet, this model is highly predictive. Properties of the particles in the Higgs sector are characteristic and can be different from those in the Standard Model and other models. We evaluate deviations in coupling constants of the standard model-like Higgs boson and the mass spectrum of the additional Higgs bosons. We find that our model is discriminative from the others by precision measurements of these coupling constants and masses of the additional Higgs bosons. This model can be a good example of grand unification that is testable at future collider experiments such as the luminosity up-graded Large Hadron Collider and future electron-positron colliders.

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arXiv2013

Proton stability in low-scale extra-dimensional grand unified theories

We propose an extra-dimensional mechanism that adequately suppresses the rate of proton decay mediated by the X-bosons in grand unified theories. The X-bosons and their Kaluza-Klein modes are localized in the extra spatial dimensions due to the kink configuration of the adjoint Higgs multiplet that is responsible for the spontaneous breaking of the unified gauge group while the standard model gauge bosons freely propagate in the bulk. By localizing fermion multiplets apart from the X-bosons in the extra dimensions, the resulting four-dimensional couplings that give rise to proton decay are exponentially suppressed, leading to the longevity of proton even when the mass scale of the X-bosons is much lower than the usual unification scale.

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arXiv2012

Testing Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions Using Higgs Boson Searches at the LHC

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) searches for the SM Higgs boson provide a powerful limit on models involving Universal Extra Dimensions (UED) where the Higgs production is enhanced. We have evaluated all one-loop diagrams for Higgs production from gluon fusion and decay to two photons within "minimal" UED (mUED), independently confirming previous results, and we have evaluated enhancement factors for Higgs boson production and decay over the mUED parameter space. Using these we have derived limits on the parameter space, combining data from both ATLAS and CMS collaborations for the most recent 7 TeV and 8 TeV LHC data. We have performed a rigorous statistical combination of several Higgs boson search channels which is important because mUED signatures from the Higgs boson are not universally enhanced. We have found that 1/R < 500 GeV is excluded at 95% CL, while for larger 1/R only a very narrow (\pm1-4 GeV) mass window around m_h = 125 GeV and another window (up to 2 GeV wide for 1/R > 1000 GeV) around m_h = 118 GeV are left. The latter is likely to be excluded as more data becomes available whereas the region around 125 GeV is where the recently discovered Higgs-like particle was observed and therefore where the exclusion limit is weaker. It is worth stressing that mUED predicts an enhancement for all channels for Higgs production by gluon fusion and decay while the vector boson fusion process WW/ZZ -> h -> AA is generically suppressed and WW/ZZ -> h -> WW*/ZZ* is standard. Therefore, as more 8 TeV LHC data becomes available, the information on individual Higgs boson production and decay processes provided by the CMS and ATLAS experiments can be effectively used to favour mUED or exclude it further.

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