False vacuum as an unstable state

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Urbanowski, K. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Zielona Gora, Inst Phys, Ul Prof Z Szafrana 4a, PL-85516 Zielona Gora, Poland
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10.1051/epjconf/201612605014
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Calculations performed within the Standard Model suggest that the electroweak vacuum is unstable if M-H < 126 GeV, ( MH is the mass of the Higgs particle). LHC discovery of the Higgs boson indicates that MH similar or equal to 125 GeV. So the vacuum in our Universe may be unstable. We analyze properties of unstable vacuum states from the point of view of the quantum theory. At asymptotically late times the survival probability as a function of time t has an inverse power-like form. We show that at this time region the energy of the false vacuum states tends to the energy of the true vacuum state as 1/t(2) for t -> infinity. This means that the energy density in the unstable vacuum state should have analogous properties and hence the cosmological constant. Lambda = Lambda(t) too. So Lambda in the Universe with the unstable vacuum should have a form of the sum of the "bare" cosmological constant and of the term of a type 1/t(2): Lambda(t) =Lambda(bare)+d/t(2), (where.bare is the cosmological constant for the Universe with the true vacuum).
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