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

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/077MaRDI QIDQ445572zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Rabinovici, Matteo Cardella, Shmuel Elitzur

Publication date 26 August 2012

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

gauge theories of scalar fieldsmetastable vacua

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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