TY - JOUR
T1 - Bubble nucleation and the Coleman-Weinberg model
AU - Jensen, Lars Gerhard
AU - Steinhardt, Paul Joseph
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by DoE contract no. EY-76-C-02-3071. One of us (PJS) was supported by a DoE Outstanding Junior Investigator grant and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship.
PY - 1984/4/30
Y1 - 1984/4/30
N2 - Motivated by the "new inflationary universe scenario", we have made a detailed study of the bubble nucleation process in (nearly) Coleman-Weinberg models with small positive scalar field mass terms. Our goal has been to show the consistency and interrelation between Coleman's analysis of bubble nucleation in flat space, the work of Coleman and De Luccia on bubble nucleation with gravitational effects and the recent dramatically different results of Hawking and Moss on bubble nucleation in Coleman-Weinberg models in a de Sitter background. Many of our results apply to more general classes of potentials.
AB - Motivated by the "new inflationary universe scenario", we have made a detailed study of the bubble nucleation process in (nearly) Coleman-Weinberg models with small positive scalar field mass terms. Our goal has been to show the consistency and interrelation between Coleman's analysis of bubble nucleation in flat space, the work of Coleman and De Luccia on bubble nucleation with gravitational effects and the recent dramatically different results of Hawking and Moss on bubble nucleation in Coleman-Weinberg models in a de Sitter background. Many of our results apply to more general classes of potentials.
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U2 - 10.1016/0550-3213(84)90021-X
DO - 10.1016/0550-3213(84)90021-X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001334107
VL - 237
SP - 176
EP - 188
JO - Nuclear Physics B
JF - Nuclear Physics B
SN - 0550-3213
IS - 1
ER -