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A new bound on supersymmetric Q-balls

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Stable baryonic Q-balls, which appear in supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model, could form at the end of cosmological inflation from fragmentation of the Affleck-Dine condensate. They can be dark matter. The existing bounds rely on the ability of Super-Kamiokande detector to trigger on a slowly moving bright source, which may be difficult for techinical reasons. We present a weaker but more robust bound based on the flux of neutrinos produced by relic Q-balls interacting in Earth.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0608014,
  title  = {A new bound on supersymmetric Q-balls},
  author = {Jason Schissel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0608014},
  year   = {2007}
}

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7 pages

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