NNLO corrections to false vacuum decay rate in thin-wall approximation

Abstract

Recently it was discovered that the Standard Model vacuum may suffer an essential metastability near the Planck scale. In this regard it makes sense to study in more detail the decay processes of the metastable vacuum and to develop methods for their more accurate analysis. In this article we develop a technique to calculate two loop radiative corrections to false vacuum decay rate in thin-wall approximation and apply it to false vacuum decay in scalar quantum field theory with cubic and quartic interactions. The results obtained use dimensional regularization and given in two different renormalization schemes: Coleman-Weinberg and $\overline{MS}$.

37 pages, 12 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1805.06482

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