On catalyzed vacuum decay around a radiating black hole and the crisis of the electroweak vacuum

Abstract False vacuum decay is a key feature in quantum field theories and exhibits a distinct signature in the early Universe cosmology. It has recently been suggested that the false vacuum decay is catalyzed by a black hole (BH), which might cause the catastrophe of the Standard Model Higgs vacuum...

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Main Authors: Takumi Hayashi, Kohei Kamada, Naritaka Oshita, Jun’ichi Yokoyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-08-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)088