Deformed bubbles and Lorentz invariance in vacuum decay

作者:Dine Michael*; Draper Patrick; Park Chang Soon
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2012, 86(6): 065033.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.065033

摘要

Recently, questions have been raised about the role of Lorentz invariance in false vacuum decay. It has been argued that infinities may arise in an integration over Lorentz-boosted final states. This suggestion motivates a Minkowski-space analysis of the decay rate. We attempt to illuminate features of the amplitude computation, and argue that the total rate including excitations is both finite and Lorentz-invariant.

  • 出版日期2012-9-25