Barnacles and gravity
Abstract
Theories with more than one vacuum allow quantum transitions between them, which may proceed via bubble nucleation; theories with more than two vacua posses additional decay modes in which the wall of a bubble may further decay. The instantons which mediate such a process have O(3) symmetry (in four dimensions, rather than the usual O(4) symmetry of homogeneous vacuum decay), and have been called ‘barnacles’; previously they have been studied in flat space, in the thin wall limit, and this paper extends the analysis to include gravity. It is found that there are regions of parameter space in which, given an initial bubble, barnacles are the favoured subsequent decay process, and that the inclusion of gravity can enlarge this region. The relation to other heterogeneous vacuum decay scenarios, as well as some of the phenomenological implications of barnacles are briefly discussed.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1424007
- Grant/Contract Number:
- sc0009999
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2017; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Classical Theories of Gravity; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons
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Scargill, James H. C. Barnacles and gravity. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2017)080.
Scargill, James H. C. Barnacles and gravity. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)080
Scargill, James H. C. Mon .
"Barnacles and gravity". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)080. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1424007.
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abstractNote = {Theories with more than one vacuum allow quantum transitions between them, which may proceed via bubble nucleation; theories with more than two vacua posses additional decay modes in which the wall of a bubble may further decay. The instantons which mediate such a process have O(3) symmetry (in four dimensions, rather than the usual O(4) symmetry of homogeneous vacuum decay), and have been called ‘barnacles’; previously they have been studied in flat space, in the thin wall limit, and this paper extends the analysis to include gravity. It is found that there are regions of parameter space in which, given an initial bubble, barnacles are the favoured subsequent decay process, and that the inclusion of gravity can enlarge this region. The relation to other heterogeneous vacuum decay scenarios, as well as some of the phenomenological implications of barnacles are briefly discussed.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP09(2017)080},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 9,
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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