Self-consistent radiative corrections to false vacuum decay
With the Higgs mass now measured at the sub-percent level, the potential metastability of the electroweak vacuum of the Standard Model (SM) motivates renewed study of false vacuum decay in quantum field theory. In this note, we describe an approach to calculating quantum corrections to the decay rat...
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| description | With the Higgs mass now measured at the sub-percent level, the potential metastability of the electroweak vacuum of the Standard Model (SM) motivates renewed study of false vacuum decay in quantum field theory. In this note, we describe an approach to calculating quantum corrections to the decay rate of false vacua that is able to account fully and self-consistently for the underlying inhomogeneity of the solitonic tunneling configuration. We show that this method can be applied both to theories in which the instability arises already at the level of the classical potential and those in which the instability arises entirely through radiative effects, as is the case for the SM Higgs vacuum. We analyse two simple models in the thin-wall regime, and we show that the modifications of the one-loop corrections from accounting fully for the inhomogeneity can compete at the same level as the two-loop homogeneous corrections. |
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| spelling | nottingham-477872020-05-04T18:57:01Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47787/ Self-consistent radiative corrections to false vacuum decay Garbrecht, Björn Millington, Peter With the Higgs mass now measured at the sub-percent level, the potential metastability of the electroweak vacuum of the Standard Model (SM) motivates renewed study of false vacuum decay in quantum field theory. In this note, we describe an approach to calculating quantum corrections to the decay rate of false vacua that is able to account fully and self-consistently for the underlying inhomogeneity of the solitonic tunneling configuration. We show that this method can be applied both to theories in which the instability arises already at the level of the classical potential and those in which the instability arises entirely through radiative effects, as is the case for the SM Higgs vacuum. We analyse two simple models in the thin-wall regime, and we show that the modifications of the one-loop corrections from accounting fully for the inhomogeneity can compete at the same level as the two-loop homogeneous corrections. IOP Publishing 2017-07-27 Article PeerReviewed Garbrecht, Björn and Millington, Peter (2017) Self-consistent radiative corrections to false vacuum decay. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 873 . 012041/1-012041/10. ISSN 1742-6596 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/873/1/012041/meta doi:10.1088/1742-6596/873/1/012041 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/873/1/012041 |
| spellingShingle | Garbrecht, Björn Millington, Peter Self-consistent radiative corrections to false vacuum decay |
| title | Self-consistent radiative corrections to false vacuum decay |
| title_full | Self-consistent radiative corrections to false vacuum decay |
| title_fullStr | Self-consistent radiative corrections to false vacuum decay |
| title_full_unstemmed | Self-consistent radiative corrections to false vacuum decay |
| title_short | Self-consistent radiative corrections to false vacuum decay |
| title_sort | self-consistent radiative corrections to false vacuum decay |
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