Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-02-27
Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 5824-5834
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
30 pages, latex, epsf, 6 figures included, complete postscript file is available at ftp://dept.physics.upenn.edu/pub/Kusenko/U
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.5824
The scalar potential of the MSSM may have local and global minima characterized by non-zero expectation values of charged and colored bosons. Even if the true vacuum is not color and charge conserving, the early Universe is likely to occupy the minimum of the potential in which only the neutral Higgs fields have non-zero vev's. The stability of this false vacuum with respect to quantum tunneling imposes important constraints on the values of the MSSM parameters. We analyze these constraints using some novel methods for calculating the false vacuum decay rate. Some regions of the MSSM parameter space are ruled out because the lifetime of the corresponding physically acceptable false vacuum is small in comparison to the present age of the Universe. However, there is a significant fraction of the parameter space that is consistent with the hypothesis that the Universe rests in the false vacuum that is stable on a cosmological time scale.
Kusenko Alexander
Langacker Paul
Segrè Gino
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