Gauged Monopole-Bubble
Yoonbai Kim, Seung Joo Lee (Sungkyunkwan U.), Kei-ichi Maeda (Waseda, U.), Nobuyuki Sakai (YITP, Kyoto U.)
TL;DR
This paper investigates the decay of a metastable false vacuum at high temperature in an SO(3) gauge theory, revealing a novel bubble solution with a 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole at its core, affecting decay dynamics.
Contribution
It introduces a new bubble solution involving a monopole at the nucleation center, expanding understanding of vacuum decay in gauge theories with internal symmetries.
Findings
Existence of a monopole-centered bubble solution.
Altered decay rate due to the monopole effect.
Insights into vacuum decay in high-temperature gauge theories.
Abstract
The decay of a metastable false vacuum by bubble nucleation is studied in the high temperature limit of the gauge theory in which an SO(3) gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken to an SO(2). The effects of internal symmetry are so drastic that, in addition to the known Euclidean bounce solution, there exists a new bubble solution involving a 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole at its center the moment it is nucleated. The decay rate and evolution are analyzed.
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