On catalyzed vacuum decay around a radiating black hole and the crisis of the electroweak vacuum

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2020)088MaRDI QIDQ2225742zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Takumi Hayashi, Kohei Kamada, Naritaka Oshita, Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Publication date 10 February 2021

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12808

zbMATH Keywords

black holessolitons monopoles and instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: False vacuum decay is a key feature in quantum field theories and exhibits a distinct signature in the early Universe cosmology. It has recently been suggested that the false vacuum decay is catalyzed by a black hole (BH), which might cause the catastrophe of the Standard Model Higgs vacuum if primordial BHs are formed in the early Universe. We investigate vacuum phase transition of a scalar field around a radiating BH with taking into account the effect of Hawking radiation. We find that the vacuum decay rate slightly decreases in the presence of the thermal effect since the scalar potential is stabilized near the horizon. However, the stabilization effect becomes weak at the points sufficiently far from the horizon. Consequently, we find that the decay rate is not significantly changed unless the effective coupling constant of the scalar field to the radiation is extremely large. This implies that the change of the potential from the Hawking radiation does not help prevent the Standard Model Higgs vacuum decay catalyzed by a BH.

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