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Antioscillons from bubble collisions at finite temperature

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WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271814500552

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Inflation; phase transitions; oscillons

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  1. DOE [DE-FG02-06ER1418]
  2. Bahnson fund

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We study the role of the topology of bubbles at finite temperatures plays on collisions and the existence of new field configurations. We show that in the case of false vacuum decay at finite temperature, the cylindrical symmetry of bubbles admits a new exotic field with negative energies, the antiperiodic twisted field. New field configurations arise generically, not only at finite temperatures but whenever a cluster of bubbles resulting from collisions form nontrivial topologies. The interaction of both configurations induces instabilites on the bubble. Collisions of bubbles occupied by the new fields can lead to the emergence of new structures, named antioscillons.

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