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Vacuum metastability with black holes

Burda, Philipp; Gregory, Ruth; Moss, Ian

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Philipp Burda

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
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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