Radiative generation of metastable minima in a scalar-fermion model
High Energy Physics - Theory
2018-08-08 v3
Abstract
I consider a theory of a real scalar and a fermion field, with a Yukawa interaction and a potential term that admits two degenerate minima at the tree level. The quantum vacuum energy difference between these two vacua can be calculated using the renormalization group improved effective potential, and gives a finite, nonzero result, dependent on the relative strength of the scalar and the Yukawa interactions.
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@article{arxiv.1303.0470,
title = {Radiative generation of metastable minima in a scalar-fermion model},
author = {Dimitrios Metaxas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.0470},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
16 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D, title changed in journal