Open AccessReheating Metastable O'Raifeartaigh Models
Author(s) -
Nathaniel Craig,
Patrick J. Fox,
Jay G. Wacker
Publication year - 2006
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/896412
Subject(s) - metastability , class (philosophy) , state (computer science) , physics , theoretical physics , statistical physics , energy (signal processing) , energy landscape , thermodynamics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , computer science , algorithm , artificial intelligence
In theories with multiple vacua, reheating to a temperature greater than the height of a barrier can stimulate transitions from a desirable metastable vacuum to a lower energy state. We discuss the constraints this places on various theories and demonstrate that in a class of supersymmetric models this transition does not occur even for arbitrarily high reheating temperature