Supersymmetry in the false vacuum
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
A metastable state, or a false vacuum, is not an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian in quantum field theory. Its energy density has a non-zero imaginary part equal to its decay width. Therefore, supersymmetry cannot be exact in the false vacuum. We calculate the size of this effect using the path integral approach.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9509275,
title = {Supersymmetry in the false vacuum},
author = {Alexander Kusenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9509275},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, latex, epsf, one figure appended (uuencoded postscript), complete postscript file is available at ftp://dept.physics.upenn.edu/pub/Kusenko/UPR679T.ps