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Status of the strong problem
Wen-Yuan Ai
The strong problem remains one of the major open questions in the Standard Model of particle physics. Its best-known solution is the Peccei--Quinn mechanism, which predicts a…
Reply to "Clearing up the Strong problem"
Wen-Yuan Ai, Björn Garbrecht, Carlos Tamarit
The conservation of in QCD has been shown to follow from a careful treatment of the path integral and canonical quantization in arXiv:2001.07152 and arXiv:2403.00747. Here, we…
Bubble wall dynamics from nonequilibrium quantum field theory
Wen-Yuan Ai, Matthias Carosi, Bjorn Garbrecht +2
We derive the coupled dynamics between the bubble wall and the plasma from first principles using nonequilibrium quantum field theory. The commonly used equation of motion of the b…
Piecewise linear potentials for false vacuum decay and negative modes
Wen-Yuan Ai, Jean Alexandre, Sarben Sarkar
We study bounce solutions and associated negative modes in the class of piecewise linear triangular-shaped potentials that may be viewed as approximations of smooth potentials. In…
The QCD theta-parameter in canonical quantization
Wen-Yuan Ai, Bjorn Garbrecht, Carlos Tamarit
The role of the QCD theta-parameter is investigated in pure Yang-Mills theory in the spacetime given by the four-dimensional Euclidean torus. While in this setting the introduction…
Double-well instantons in finite volume
Wen-Yuan Ai, Jean Alexandre, Matthias Carosi +2
Assuming a toroidal space with finite volume, we derive analytically the full one-loop vacuum energy for a scalar field tunnelling between two degenerate vacua, taking into account…
False vacuum decay rates, more precisely
Wen-Yuan Ai, Jean Alexandre, Sarben Sarkar
We develop a method for accurately calculating vacuum decay rates beyond the thin-wall regime in a pure scalar field theory at the one-loop level of the effective action. It accoun…