Absence of resonant decay for metastable vacua in gauge theories of scalar fields
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✦ hep-th
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scalarfieldgaugeresonantdecayfieldsmetastabletheories
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We prove the impossibility of resonant decay of a metastable vacuum in a theory of a scalar field coupled to a gauge field. Our result extends to gauge theories of scalar fields a recent no go theorem for resonant tunneling in a pure scalar field theory.
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