Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-12-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We use a Green's function approach in order to develop a method for calculating the tunneling rate between radiatively-generated non-degenerate vacua. We apply this to a model that exhibits spontaneous symmetry breaking via the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism, where we determine the self-consistent tunneling configuration and illustrate the impact of gradient effects that arise from accounting for the underlying space-time inhomogeneity.
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@article{arxiv.1509.08480,
title = {Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials},
author = {Bjorn Garbrecht and Peter Millington},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.08480},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
14 pages, 14 figures, revtex format; version accepted for publication in Physical Review D