Vacuum decay in the Standard Model: analytical results with running and gravity

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/052zbMATH Open1492.83010arXiv2003.06219OpenAlexW3099982606MaRDI QIDQ5069178FDOQ5069178

Authors: J. R. Espinosa 

Publication date: 8 April 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A tunneling bounce driving the decay of a metastable vacuum must respect an integral constraint dictated by simple scaling arguments that is very useful to determine key properties of the bounce. After illustrating how this works in a simple toy model, the Standard Model Higgs potential is considered, including quartic coupling running and gravitational corrections as sources of scale invariance breaking. This approach clarifies the existence of the bounce and leads to simple and accurate analytical results in an expansion in the breaking parameters. Using the so-called tunneling-potential approach (generalized for nonminimal coupling to gravity) the integral constraint and the tunneling action are extended to second order in perturbations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06219

zbMATH Keywords

gravityparticle physics-cosmology connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) PDEs on time scales (35R07) Tunneling in quantum theory (81U26)

Cites Work

• On the metastability of the Standard Model vacuum
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• The stabilizing effect of gravity made simple
• Gravitational corrections to electroweak vacuum decay: metric vs. Palatini
• Vacuum decay constraints on the Higgs curvature coupling from inflation

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