Decay of Metastable Topological Defects

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1992-09-03

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9209210v1

Phys.Rev.D47:2324-2342,1993

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

43 pages, harvmac, HUTP-92/A018, CALT-68-1786

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.47.2324

We systematically analyze the decay of metastable topological defects that arise from the spontaneous breakdown of gauge or global symmetries. Quantum-mechanical tunneling rates are estimated for a variety of decay processes. The decay rate for a global string, vortex, domain wall, or kink is typically suppressed compared to the decay rate for its gauged counterpart. We also discuss the decay of global texture, and of semilocal and electroweak strings.

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