Gauged Monopole-Bubble
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The decay of a metastable false vacuum by bubble nucleation is studied in the high temperature limit of the gauge theory in which an SO(3) gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken to an SO(2). The effects of internal symmetry are so drastic that, in addition to the known Euclidean bounce solution, there exists a new bubble solution involving a 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole at its center the moment it is nucleated. The decay rate and evolution are analyzed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9901436,
title = {Gauged Monopole-Bubble},
author = {Yoonbai Kim and Seung Joo Lee and Kei-ichi Maeda and Nobuyuki Sakai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9901436},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, latex, including figures