On gravitational and thermal corrections to vacuum decay
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-09-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We reconsider gravitational corrections to vacuum decay, confirming and simplifying earlier results and extending them by allowing for a non-minimal coupling of the Higgs to gravity. We find that leading-order gravitational corrections suppress the vacuum decay rate. Furthermore, we compute minor corrections to thermal vacuum decay in the SM by adding one-loop contributions to the Higgs kinetic term, two-loop contributions to the Higgs potential and allowing for time-dependent bounces.
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@article{arxiv.1608.02555,
title = {On gravitational and thermal corrections to vacuum decay},
author = {Alberto Salvio and Alessandro Strumia and Nikolaos Tetradis and Alfredo Urbano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.02555},
year = {2016}
}
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19 pages, 7 figures