Testing the electroweak phase transition in scalar extension models at lepton colliders

We study the electroweak phase transition in three scalar extension models beyond the Standard Model.Assuming new scalars are decoupled at some heavy scale, we use the covariant derivative expansion method to derive all of the dimension-6 effective operators, whose coefficients are highly correlated in a specific model. We provide bounds to the complete set of dimension-6 operators by including the electroweak precision test and recent Higgs measurements. We find that the parameter space of strong first-order phase transitions(induced by the |H|~6 operator)can be probed extensively in Zh production at future electron-positron colliders.     

Searching for sub-MeV boosted dark matter from xenon electron direct detection

Direct detection experiments tend to lose sensitivity in searches for sub-MeV light dark matter candidates due to the threshold of recoil energy.However,such light dark matter particles could be accelerated by energetic cosmic rays,such that they could be detected with existing detectors.We derive constraints on the scattering of a boosted light dark matter particle and electron from the XENON100/1T experiment.We illustrate that the energy dependence of the cross section plays a crucial role in improving both the detection sensitivity and also the complementarity of direct detection and other experiments.