Is the vacuum stable?

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01470-0MaRDI QIDQ5925893zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Kusenko, Paul Langacker

Publication date 11 March 2001

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9608340

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The experimental data, as well as theoretical considerations allow (and, in some cases, require) the Universe at present to rest in a false vacuum, whose approximate stability imposes constraints on the model parameters. Under very general and mild conditions, the Universe would have ended up in the standard vacuum even if the potential has deeper minima, provided there was a period in which the temperature was > 1 TeV. In many cases, the zero temperature tunneling rate is much smaller than the inverse age of the Universe. Future experiments may reveal that the physical vacuum is not entirely stable. Implications for the cosmological constant are discussed.

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• The cosmological constant problem

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