Deformed bubbles and Lorentz invariance in vacuum decay

Michael Dine, Patrick Draper, Chang Soon Park

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Abstract

Recently, questions have been raised about the role of Lorentz invariance in false vacuum decay. It has been argued that infinities may arise in an integration over Lorentz-boosted final states. This suggestion motivates a Minkowski-space analysis of the decay rate. We attempt to illuminate features of the amplitude computation, and argue that the total rate including excitations is both finite and Lorentz-invariant.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number065033
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume86
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 25 2012
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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