Absence of resonant decay for metastable vacua in gauge theories of scalar fields

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/077zbMATH Open1245.81087arXiv0807.1732OpenAlexW3100771997MaRDI QIDQ445572FDOQ445572

Authors: E. Rabinovici, Matteo Cardella, Shmuel Elitzur 

Publication date: 26 August 2012

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

Abstract: We prove the impossibility of resonant decay of a metastable vacuum in a theory of a scalar field coupled to a gauge field. Our result extends to gauge theories of scalar fields a recent no go theorem for resonant tunneling in a pure scalar field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1732

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge theories of scalar fieldsmetastable vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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