Standard model vacuum decay in a de Sitter background
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Author(s)
Rajantie, Arttu
Stopyra, Stephen
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We present a calculation of thick-wall Coleman-de Luccia (CdL) bounces in the standard model effective potential in a de Sitter background. The calculation is performed including the effect of the bounce backreaction on the metric, which we compare with the case of a fixed de Sitter background, and with similar full-backreaction calculation in a model polynomial potential. The results show that the standard model potential exhibits nontrivial behavior: rather than a single CdL solution, there are multiple (nonoscillating) bounce solutions which may contribute to the decay rate. All the extra solutions found have higher actions than the largest amplitude solution, and thus would not contribute significantly to the decay rate, but their existence demonstrates that CdL solutions in the standard model potential are not unique, and the existence of additional, lower action, solutions cannot be ruled out. This suggests that a better understanding of the appearance and disappearance of CdL solutions in de Sitter space is needed to fully understand the vacuum instability issue in the standard model.
Date Issued
2018-01-15
Date Acceptance
2018-01-01
Citation
Physical Review D, 2018, 97 (2)
ISSN
2470-0010
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review D
Volume
97
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s). Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.
Sponsor
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Identifier
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Grant Number
ST/L00044X/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
FALSE VACUUM
ELECTROWEAK VACUUM
SYMMETRY-BREAKING
BUBBLE NUCLEATION
GAUGE-INVARIANCE
HIGGS-BOSON
STABILITY
UNIVERSE
FATE
LHC
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
025012
Date Publish Online
2018-01-19