Pseudostable bubbles
Abstract
The evolution of spherically symmetric unstable scalar field configurations (``bubbles'') is examined for both symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials. Bubbles with initial static energies E0<~Ecrit, where Ecrit is some critical value, shrink in a time scale determined by their linear dimension or ``radius.'' Bubbles with E0>~Ecrit evolve into time-dependent, localized configurations which are very long-lived compared to characteristic time scales in the models examined. The stability of these configurations is investigated and possible applications are briefly discussed.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- March 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.49.2978
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9308279
- Bibcode:
- 1994PhRvD..49.2978G
- Keywords:
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- 11.10.Lm;
- 98.80.Cq;
- Nonlinear or nonlocal theories and models;
- Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, LaTeX (uses revtex 3.0), 4 figures (postscript files of figs.1 and 2 appended starting on line 497), report DART-HEP-93/05