Beyond the thin-wall approximation: Precise numerical computation of prefactors in false vacuum decay

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Dunne, Gerald V ^a   Min, Hyunsoo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Seoul   (South Korea)

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EID: 29744445497     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.125004     Document Type: Article

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