De Sitter decays to infinity

Draper, Patrick; Garcia, Isabel Garcia; Lillard, Benjamin

doi:10.1007/jhep12(2021)154

De Sitter decays to infinity

Journal Article · Tue Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2021 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12(2021)154· OSTI ID:1976598

Draper, Patrick ^[1]; Garcia, Isabel Garcia ^[2]; ^[3]

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland). The CMS Collaboration
University of California, Santa Barbara (United States). Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)

Bubbles of nothing are a class of vacuum decay processes present in some theories with compactified extra dimensions. We investigate the existence and properties of bubbles of nothing in models where the scalar pseudomoduli controlling the size of the extra dimensions are stabilized at positive vacuum energy, which is a necessary feature of any realistic model. We map the construction of bubbles of nothing to a four-dimensional Coleman-De Luccia problem and establish necessary conditions on the asymptotic behavior of the scalar potential for the existence of suitable solutions. We perform detailed analyses in the context of five-dimensional theories with metastable dS₄ x S¹ vacua, using analytic approximations and numerical methods to calculate the decay rate. We find that bubbles of nothing sometimes exist in potentials with no ordinary Coleman-De Luccia decay process, and that in the examples we study, when both processes exist, the bubble of nothing decay rate is typically faster. Our methods can be generalized to other stabilizing potentials and internal manifolds.

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Research Organization:: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0015655

OSTI ID:: 1976598

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 2021; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer NatureCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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