Gauge independence of the bubble nucleation rate in theories with radiative symmetry breaking

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 836-843

  Metaxas, Dimitrios ^a   Weinberg, Erick J ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0000118888     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.53.836     Document Type: Article

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