Separation distribution of vacuum bubbles in de Sitter space

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02662-XzbMATH Open0998.83026arXivhep-ph/0207275OpenAlexW2001257041MaRDI QIDQ700813FDOQ700813

Martin Bucher, Carla Carvalho

Publication date: 9 October 2002

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

Abstract: We compute the probability distribution of the invariant separation between nucleation centers of colliding true vacuum bubbles arising from the decay of a false de Sitter space vacuum. We find that even in the limit of a very small nucleation rate per unit Hubble volume the production of widely separated bubble pairs is suppressed. This distribution is of particular relevance for the recently proposed ``colliding bubble braneworld scenario, in which the value of Omega_k (the contribution of negative spatial curvature to the cosmological density parameter) is determined by the invariant separation of the colliding bubble pair. We also consider the probability of a collision with a `third' bubble.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0207275

zbMATH Keywords

probability distributionfalse vacuum decaynucleation centers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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• Inflationary universe: A possible solution to the horizon and flatness problems
• Quantum Fields in Curved Space
• Out of this world supersymmetry breaking.
• Cosmology of one extra dimension with localized gravity
• A braneworld universe from colliding bubbles

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