Metastable dark energy

We build a model of metastable dark energy, in which the observed vacuum energy is the value of the scalar potential at the false vacuum. The scalar potential is given by a sum of even self-interactions up to order six. The deviation from the Minkowski vacuum is due to a term suppressed by the Planc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ricardo G. Landim, Elcio Abdalla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-01-01
Series:Physics Letters B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316307079