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One-Loop Corrections to Bubble Nucleation Rate at Finite Temperature

J. Baacke, V. Kiselev

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9308273

Abstract

We present an evaluation of the 1-loop prefactor in the lifetime of a metastable state which decays at finite temperature by bubble nucleation. Such a state is considered in one-component phi4 model in three space dimensions. The calculation serves as a prototype application of a fast numerical method for evaluating the functional determinants that appear in semiclassical approximations.

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