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Supersymmetry in the false vacuum

Alexander Kusenko

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9509275

Abstract

A metastable state, or a false vacuum, is not an eigenstate of the Hamiltonian in quantum field theory. Its energy density has a non-zero imaginary part equal to its decay width. Therefore, supersymmetry cannot be exact in the false vacuum. We calculate the size of this effect using the path integral approach.

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