Effects of Gravity and Finite Temperature on the Decay of the False Vacuum

2004/09/07 by Lee C. Loveridge, Loveridge, Lee C.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0409093

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Abstract

I have calculated the exponential suppression factor in the decay rate of the false vacuum (per unit volume) for a real scalar field at finite temperature, in the presence of gravity, in the thin-wall approximation. Temperatures are assumed to be much greater than the inverse of the nucleation radius. The value of a local minimum of the scalar potential is arbitrary. Thus, both true and false vacuua may have arbitrary cosmological constants.

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