Gravitational effects on critical Q-balls
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v6
Abstract
In a cosmological phase transition in theories that admit Q-balls there is a value of the soliton charge above which the soliton becomes unstable and expands, converting space to the true vacuum, much like a critical bubble in the case of ordinary tunneling. Here I consider the effects of gravity on these solitons and I calculate the lowest gravitational corrections to the critical radius and charge.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0411385,
title = {Gravitational effects on critical Q-balls},
author = {Dimitrios Metaxas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0411385},
year = {2008}
}
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LaTeX, 8 pages, final version to appear in EPL