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A Unified View of Vacuum Decay Channels

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The tunneling potential formalism, an alternative to the standard Coleman Euclidean approach, offers in a natural way a unified view of vacuum decays. In particular, I show in this talk how Coleman's bounce is just a member of a continuous family of solutions that can also feature Hawking-Moss instantons, pseudo-bounces and bubble-of-nothing solutions.

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@article{arxiv.2501.09714,
  title  = {A Unified View of Vacuum Decay Channels},
  author = {J. R. Espinosa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.09714},
  year   = {2025}
}

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4 pages. Contribution to the Proceedings of the 35th Rencontres de Blois 2024