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hep-th2019★ 12 cited
Instability of Higgs Vacuum via String Cloud
Issei Koga, Sachiko Kuroyanagi, Yutaka Ookouchi
We study the instability of the Higgs vacuum caused by a cloud of strings. By catalysis, the decay rate of the vacuum is highly enhanced and, when the energy density of the cloud i…
hep-th2019
Catalytic Creation of Baby Bubble Universe with Small Positive Cosmological Constant
Issei Koga, Yutaka Ookouchi
We investigate the decay of metastable de Sitter, Minkowski and anti-de Sitter vacua catalyzed by a black hole and a cloud of strings. We apply the method to the creation of the fo…