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On catalyzed vacuum decay around a radiating black hole and the crisis of the electroweak vacuum

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 8, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2020)088

Keywords

Black Holes; Solitons Monopoles and Instantons

Funding

  1. Program of Excellence in Photon Science
  2. JSPS KAKENHI [JP19K03842, 19H04610, 15H02082, 20H00151, 20H05248]
  3. JSPS Overseas Research Fellowships
  4. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  5. Government of Canada through the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
  6. Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Colleges and Universities
  7. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20H05248, 20H00151, 19H04610] Funding Source: KAKEN

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False vacuum decay is a key feature in quantum field theories and exhibits a distinct signature in the early Universe cosmology. It has recently been suggested that the false vacuum decay is catalyzed by a black hole (BH), which might cause the catastrophe of the Standard Model Higgs vacuum if primordial BHs are formed in the early Universe. We investigate vacuum phase transition of a scalar field around a radiating BH with taking into account the effect of Hawking radiation. We find that the vacuum decay rate slightly decreases in the presence of the thermal effect since the scalar potential is stabilized near the horizon. However, the stabilization effect becomes weak at the points sufficiently far from the horizon. Consequently, we find that the decay rate is not significantly changed unless the effective coupling constant of the scalar field to the radiation is extremely large. This implies that the change of the potential from the Hawking radiation does not help prevent the Standard Model Higgs vacuum decay catalyzed by a BH.

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