We prove the impossibility of resonant decay of a metastable vacuum in a theory of a scalar field coupled to a gauge field. Our result extends to gauge theories of scalar fields a recent no go theorem for resonant tunneling in a pure scalar field theory. © 2008 SISSA.

Absence of resonant decay for metastable vacua in gauge theories of scalar fields / M. Cardella, S. Elitzur, E. Rabinovici. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - 2008:9(2008), pp. 077.1-077.18. [10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/077]

Absence of resonant decay for metastable vacua in gauge theories of scalar fields

M. Cardella;
2008

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We prove the impossibility of resonant decay of a metastable vacuum in a theory of a scalar field coupled to a gauge field. Our result extends to gauge theories of scalar fields a recent no go theorem for resonant tunneling in a pure scalar field theory. © 2008 SISSA.
solitons monopoles and instantons; nonperturbative effects
Settore FIS/02 - Fisica Teorica, Modelli e Metodi Matematici
2008
http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1732v1
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