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Decay of cosmological constant as Bose condensate evaporation

Astrophysics 2009-11-06 v2

Abstract

We consider the process of decay of symmetric vacuum state as evaporation of a Bose condensate of physical Higgs particles, defined over asymmetric vacuum state. Energy density of their selfinteraction is identified with cosmological constant Λ\Lambda in the Einstein equation. Λ\Lambda decay then provides dynamical realization of spontaneous symmetry breaking. The effective mechanism is found for damping of coherent oscillations of a scalar field, leading to slow evaporation regime as the effective mechanism for Λ\Lambda decay responsible for inflation without special fine-tuning of the microphysical parameters. This mechanism is able to incorporate reheating, generation of proper primordial fluctuations, and nonzero cosmological constant today.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0102094,
  title  = {Decay of cosmological constant as Bose condensate evaporation},
  author = {Irina Dymnikova and Maxim Yu. Khlopov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0102094},
  year   = {2009}
}