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Aspects of false vacuum decay

Year: 2019

Type: dissertation

Abstract: False vacuum decay is the first-order phase transition of fundamental fields which plays a very important role in particle physics and cosmology. In this thesis, we give a detailed study on several aspects of false vacuum decay, including correspondence between thermal and quantum transitions of vacuum in flat or curved spacetime, radiative corrections to false vacuum decay and, the real-time formalism of vacuum transitions.

Source: mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich)

Author: Wen-Yuan Ai

Language: English

Topic: Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3036921904

Cites: 80

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