Supersymmetry in the false vacuum

Preprint

12 September 1995

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9509275

Abstract

A metastable state, or a false vacuum, is not an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian in quantum field theory. Its energy density has a non-zero imaginary part equal to its decay width. Therefore, supersymmetry cannot be exact in the false vacuum. We calculate the size of this effect using the path integral approach.

Keywords

METASTABLE STATE
ZERO IMAGINARY
PATH INTEGRAL
SUPERSYMMETRY
FALSE VACUUM
PART EQUAL
VACUUM
DECAY

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Version 1, 1995-09-12, ArXiv
Published version: Physics Letters B, 377 (4), 245.

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