Star Wreck
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v2 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Electroweak models with low-energy supersymmetry breaking predict the existence of stable non-topological solitons, Q-balls, that can be produced in the early universe. The relic Q-balls can accumulate inside a neutron star and gradually absorb the baryons into the scalar condensate. This causes a slow reduction in the mass of the star. When the mass reaches a critical value, the neutron star becomes unstable and explodes. The cataclysmic destruction of the distant neutron stars may be the origin of the gamma-ray bursts.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9801212,
title = {Star Wreck},
author = {Alexander Kusenko and Mikhail Shaposhnikov and P. G. Tinyakov and Igor I. Tkachev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9801212},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages; references added