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Analytic false-vacuum decay rate in the thin-wall approximation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-04-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a fully analytical calculation of the false vacuum decay rate for a self-interacting scalar field in the thin-wall approximation. We obtain the bounce solution, together with the Euclidean action, counter-terms and renormalization group running, and we extract the functional determinant via the Gel'fand-Yaglom theorem. Our procedure is valid for a generic spacetime dimension DD, and we provide an explicit finite renormalized decay rate in D=3,4D=3,4.

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@article{arxiv.2304.02290,
  title  = {Analytic false-vacuum decay rate in the thin-wall approximation},
  author = {Marco Matteini and Miha Nemevšek and Lorenzo Ubaldi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.02290},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Conference proceedings for Corfu Summer Institute 2022 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity", August 28 - October 1, 2022, Corfu, Greece. Based on arXiv:2202.04498

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