The fate of the false vacuum in Einstein gravity theory with nonminimally-coupled scalar field

By Wonwoo Lee, C. H. Lee. 2005

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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The Gravitational-Wave Physics (2017, background): “The seminal works [38, 39] were later extended to the case of vacuum decay in curved spacetime in [40] and thermal decay in flat spacetime in [41].”
Electroweak phase transition and baryogenesis in composite Higgs models (2018, methodology): “The tunnelling rate is then given by [92, 93]”
Gravitational wave energy budget in strongly supercooled phase transitions (2019, background): “1 Thin-wall bubbles We start with the thin-wall approximation [52], in which the bubble wall is treated as a boundary of negligible width between the two phases.”
$Z_3$ Scalar Singlet Dark Matter (2012, methodology): “The decay probability per unit time per unit volume [23] is given by Γ V = Ke−SE , (12)”
Higgs potential in the type II seesaw model (2011, background): “This is a dangerous configuration since it makes the EWSB vacuum potentially very short-lived due to tunneling effects [24, 25].”
Black holes as bubble nucleation sites (2013, background): “The only case where the formula has a rigorous justification is in flat space, [1].”
Mirror particles and mirror matter: 50 years of speculation and searching (2006, background): “Metastable vacuum was dubbed false vacuum three years later, see [59]-[61].”
Phase Diagram of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory with R-Symmetry Chemical Potentials (2006, unknown): “The process is characterized by a Euclidean bounce solution [35, 36].”
Fencing in the swampland: quantum gravity constraints on large field inflation (2015, background): “The tunnelling amplitude is given in terms of the tension of the domain wall, σ, and the potential difference between the two sides of the domain wall, ∆V , as [34, 35]”
Gravitational waves from first-order cosmological phase transitions: lifetime of the sound wave source (2020, background): “In this Section we discuss the so-called thin-wall limit [83], in which the bubble profile is approximated by just two field values, one inside and the other outside the bubble:”
CosmoTransitions: Computing cosmological phase transition temperatures and bubble profiles with multiple fields (2011, background): “[31, 32, 33] for seminal work on phase transitions in quantum field theory).”
Metastability bounds on the two Higgs doublet model (2013, unknown): “This is an application of the classic calculation by Coleman [62] for a potential with a single scalar field, very well discussed in the book by Rubakov [63].”
Testing electroweak baryogenesis with future colliders (2014, background): “Therefore we regard any (7)The tunneling rate from the singlet-VEV minimum to the EWSB minimum is Γ ∼ e−SE , where SE is the finite-temperature bounce action [70].”
Relaxion monodromy and the Weak Gravity Conjecture (2015, background): “Their decay rate [48,66] can be safely computed within effective field theory and is not an issue for the relaxion proposal.”
Can electroweak bubble walls run away (2009, background): “In a first-order cosmological phase transition in vacuum [22], the energy density of the false vacuum is completely converted into kinetic energy of the bubble walls.”