Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials

Garbrecht, Bj�rn; Millington, Peter

Abstract

We use a Green’s function approach in order to develop a method for calculating the tunneling rate between radiatively generated nondegenerate 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.

Citation

Garbrecht, B., & Millington, P. (2015). Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials. Physical Review D, 92(12), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.125022

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 23, 2015
• Publication Date: Dec 21, 2015
• Deposit Date: Nov 2, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 2, 2017
• Journal: Physical Review D
• Print ISSN: 2470-0010
• Electronic ISSN: 2470-0029
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 92
• Issue: 12
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.125022
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/768889
• Publisher URL: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.125022
• Contract Date: Nov 2, 2017