Philipp Burda
Vacuum metastability with black holes
Burda, Philipp; Gregory, Ruth; Moss, Ian
Authors
Ruth Gregory
Ian Moss
Abstract
We consider the possibility that small black holes can act as nucleation seeds for the decay of a metastable vacuum, focussing particularly on the Higgs potential. Using a thin-wall bubble approximation for the nucleation process, which is possible when generic quantum gravity corrections are added to the Higgs potential, we show that primordial black holes can stimulate vacuum decay. We demonstrate that for suitable parameter ranges, the vacuum decay process dominates over the Hawking evaporation process. Finally, we comment on the application of these results to vacuum decay seeded by black holes produced in particle collisions.
Citation
Burda, P., Gregory, R., & Moss, I. (2015). Vacuum metastability with black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015(8), Article 114. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282015%29114
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 4, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 24, 2015 |
Publication Date | Aug 24, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Sep 17, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Print ISSN | 1126-6708 |
Publisher | Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 2015 |
Issue | 8 |
Article Number | 114 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282015%29114 |
Keywords | Solitons Monopoles and Instantons, Black Holes. |
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© 2015 The Authors. Article funded by SCOAP3. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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