arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 1805.09620gr-qcastro-ph.COhep-th
收藏

扩展Friedmann-Robertson-Walker宇宙中的粒子衰变

Particle decay in expanding Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes

Juho Lankinen, Iiro Vilja

摘要:

能量守恒的缺乏在弯曲时空中引入了新的粒子过程,而这在平坦空间中是不允许的。因此,在早期宇宙应用中使用闵可夫斯基空间计算的结果时必须非常谨慎。粒子衰变率尤其如此,这需要在弯曲时空中使用量子场论计算。以前的研究通常局限于使用最小或共形耦合的衰变粒子,而使用更一般的耦合将提供更深入的了解粒子衰变。本文给出了在一般幂律宇宙中与引力任意耦合的大质量粒子衰变的结果。我们发现,依赖于引力耦合的值,引力的影响可能会加强或削弱衰变。分析还表明,除了辐射主导宇宙外,对于所有宇宙类型,都存在衰减率恰好为闵可夫斯基型的耦合常数值。由于衰变率在弯曲空间中可能会有相当大的变化,因此在进行精确的宇宙学计算时需要考虑这些问题。

英文摘要:

The lack of energy conservation introduces new particle processes in curved spacetime that are forbidden in flat space. Therefore one has to be very cautious about using the results calculated in Minkowskian space in early universe applications. This is true for particle decay rates in particular, which need to be calculated using quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Previous studies are usually restricted to using minimal or conformal coupling for the decaying particle, while using a more general coupling would give deeper insight into particle decay. This paper presents the results we obtained for a massive particle decaying in a general power-law universe with arbitrary coupling to gravity. We find that depending on the value of the gravitational coupling, the effect of gravitation may either strengthen or weaken the decay. The analysis further reveals that, apart from radiation dominated universe, there are values of the coupling constant for which the decay rate is exactly Minkowskian for all universe types. Because the decay rate may be considerably modified in curved space, these issues need to be considered when doing precise cosmological calculations.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑