Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials

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 tunnel...

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Main Authors: Garbrecht, Björn, Millington, Peter
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Published: American Physical Society 2015
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47783/
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description 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.
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spelling nottingham-477832020-05-04T17:26:09Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47783/ Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials Garbrecht, Björn Millington, Peter 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. American Physical Society 2015-12-21 Article PeerReviewed Garbrecht, Björn and Millington, Peter (2015) Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials. Physical Review D, 92 (12). p. 125022. ISSN 2470-0010 https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.125022 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.125022 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.125022
spellingShingle Garbrecht, Björn
Millington, Peter
Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials
title Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials
title_full Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials
title_fullStr Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials
title_full_unstemmed Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials
title_short Self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials
title_sort self-consistent solitons for vacuum decay in radiatively generated potentials
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47783/
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