Breaking of a metastable string at finite temperature

Details Breaking of a metastable string at finite temperature Breaking of a metastable string at finite temperature

2008-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/0809.5286v1

Phys.Rev.D78:125029,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

15 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.125029

We consider the phase transition of a string with tension $\eps_1$ to a string with a smaller tension $\eps_2$ at finite temperature. For sufficiently small temperatures the transition proceeds through thermally catalyzed quantum tunneling, and we calculate in arbitrary number of dimensions the thermal catalysis factor. At $\eps_2=0$ the found formula for the decay rate also describes a break up of a metastable string into two pieces.

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