Vacuum decay on a brane world
Abstract
The bubble nucleation rate for a first order phase transition occurring on a brane world is calculated. Both the Coleman-de Luccia thin wall instanton and the Hawking-Moss instanton are considered. The results are compared with the corresponding nucleation rates for standard four-dimensional gravity.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- May 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.104023
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/0503243
- Bibcode:
- 2005PhRvD..71j4023D
- Keywords:
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- 04.50.+h;
- 05.70.Fh;
- Gravity in more than four dimensions Kaluza-Klein theory unified field theories;
- alternative theories of gravity;
- Phase transitions: general studies;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 5 pages