Gravitational waves from Higgs domain walls

The effective potential for the Standard Model Higgs field allows two quasi-degenerate vacua; one is our vacuum at the electroweak scale, while the other is at a much higher scale. The latter minimum may be at a scale much smaller than the Planck scale, if the potential is lifted by new physics. Thi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Naoya Kitajima, Fuminobu Takahashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-05-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931500283X