INSTANTON-LIKE TRANSITIONS AT HIGH-ENERGIES IN (1-DIMENSIONAL SCALAR MODELS .2. CLASSICALLY ALLOWED INDUCED VACUUM DECAY(1))

Authors
Citation
Va. Rubakov et Dt. Son, INSTANTON-LIKE TRANSITIONS AT HIGH-ENERGIES IN (1-DIMENSIONAL SCALAR MODELS .2. CLASSICALLY ALLOWED INDUCED VACUUM DECAY(1)), Nuclear physics. B, 424(1), 1994, pp. 55-70
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
424
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
55 - 70
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1994)424:1<55:ITAHI(>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
We consider classical Minkowskian solutions to the field equation in t he (1+1)-dimensional scalar model with exponential interaction that de scribe the unsuppressed false vacuum decay induced by n initial partic les. We find that there is a critical value of n below which there are no such solutions, i.e. the vacuum decay is always suppressed. For th e number of initial particles larger than this value the vacuum decay is unsuppressed at high enough energies.