Deformed Bubbles and Lorentz Invariance in Vacuum Decay
High Energy Physics - Theory
2013-05-30 v1
Abstract
Recently, questions have been raised about the role of Lorentz invariance in false vacuum decay. It has been argued that infinities may arise in an integration over Lorentz-boosted final states. This suggestion motivates a Minkowski-space analysis of the decay rate. We attempt to illuminate features of the amplitude computation, and argue that the total rate including excitations is both finite and Lorentz invariant.
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@article{arxiv.1206.5880,
title = {Deformed Bubbles and Lorentz Invariance in Vacuum Decay},
author = {Michael Dine and Patrick Draper and Chang-Soon Park},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5880},
year = {2013}
}
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23 pages