Electroweak Phase Transition in the U(1)' MSSM

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In this work, we have investigated the nature of the electroweak phase transition in the U(1) extended minimal supersymmetric standard model without introducing any exotic fields.

• The effective potential has been estimated exactly at finite temperature taking into account the whole particle spectrum.
• For reasonable values of the lightest Higgs and neutralino, we found that the electroweak phase transition could be strongly first order due to: (1) the interactions of the singlet with the doublets in the effective potential, and (2) the evolution of the wrong vacuum that delays the transition.