Volume 347 - Corfu Summer Institute 2018 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" (CORFU2018) - Session: Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond
Decay of false vacua via impurities in string theories
Y. Ookouchi,* Y. Nakai, N. Tanahashi
*corresponding author
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Published on: September 19, 2019
Abstract
We investigate catalysis induced by a dyonic impurity in the metastable vacuum studied by Kachru, Pearson and Verlinde,
which can be relevant to vacuum decay in the KKLT scenario. The impurity is a D3-brane wrapping on $\mathbb{S}^3$ in the Klebanov-Strassler geometry. The effect of the D3-brane can be encoded in the world-volume theory of an NS5-brane as an electromagnetic field on it. As the field strength becomes large, instability of the vacuum enhances. As a result, the lifetime of the metastable vacuum becomes drastically shorter.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.347.0078
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