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We demonstrate the formation of quasi-stable localized scalar configurations in spontaneously symmetry breaking U(1) model by 3+1-dimensional classical lattice simulations. Such configurations are called PQ-balls, as the primary motivation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-03 Kazunori Nakayama , Masaki Yamada

The paper, classically, presents an extended Klein-Gordon field system in 3+1 dimensions with a special Q-ball solution. The Q-ball solution is energetically stable, that is, for any arbitrary small deformation above the background of that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-06 Mohammad Mohammadi

We study non-topological solitons, so called Q-balls, which carry a non-vanishing Noether charge and arise as lump solutions of self-interacting complex scalar field models. Explicit examples of new axially symmetric non-spinning Q-ball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

We investigate how gravity affects Q-balls by exemplifying the case of the Affleck-Dine potential $V(\phi):=m^4 \ln (1+\frac{\phi^2}{m^2})$. Surprisingly, stable Q-balls with arbitrarily small charge exist, no matter how weak gravity is,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-20 Takashi Tamaki , Nobuyuki Sakai

Scalar field theories with particular U(1)-symmetric potentials contain non-topological soliton solutions called Q-balls. Promoting the U(1) to a gauge symmetry leads to the more complicated situation of gauged Q-balls. The soliton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Rebecca Riley , Christopher B. Verhaaren

We investigate the presence of non-topological solutions of the Q-ball type in (1, 1) spacetime dimensions. The model engenders the global U(1) symmetry and is of the k-field type, since it contains a new term, of the fourth-order power in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 D. Bazeia , L. Losano , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes

It is known that after Affleck-Dine baryogenesis, spatial inhomogeneities of Affleck-Dine field grow into non-topological solitons called Q-balls. In gauge mediated SUSY breaking models, sufficiently large Q-balls with baryon charge are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-23 Jeong-Pyong Hong , Masahiro Kawasaki , Masaki Yamada

The regularized signum-Gordon potential has a smooth minimum and is linear in the modulus of the field value for higher amplitudes. The Q-ball solutions in this model are investigated. Their existence for charges large enough is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-09-16 Jakub Lis

We consider gauged Q-balls in the gravity-mediation-type model in the Affleck-Dine mechanism, which is described by the potential $V_{\rm grav.}(\phi):=(m_{\rm grav.}^2/2)\phi^2\left[1+K\ln(\phi/M)^2\right]$ with $K<0$. In many models of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-09 Takashi Tamaki , Nobuyuki Sakai

We find that there exists a soliton-like solution ``I-ball'' in theories of a real scalar field if the scalar potential satisfies appropriate conditions. Although the I-ball does not have any topological or global U(1) charges, its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Kasuya , M. Kawasaki , Fuminobu Takahashi

If a real scalar field is dominated by non-relativistic modes, then it approximately conserves its particle number and obeys an equation that governs a complex scalar field theory with a conserved global U(1) symmetry. From this fact, it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-27 Kyohei Mukaida , Masahiro Takimoto

This work deals with charged nontopological solutions that appear in relativistic models described by a single complex scalar field in two-dimensional spacetime. We study a model which supports novel analytical configurations of the Q-ball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 D. Bazeia , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes

Q-balls are large bound-state systems of scalar particles, described classically through localized solutions of the equations of motion. Promoting the required stabilizing $U(1)$ symmetry to a gauge symmetry leads to gauged Q-balls, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Julian Heeck , Yu Zhi

We consider a scalar field model with a self-interaction potential that possesses a discrete vacuum manifold. We point out that this model allows for both topological as well as non-topological solitons. In (1+1) dimensions both type of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-06 Yves Brihaye , Adolfo Cisterna , Betti Hartmann , Gabriel Luchini

We consider the $U(1)$ gauged two-component Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin model in 3+1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime, which supports non-topological soliton configurations. Here we found families of axially-symmetric spinning gauged Q-balls, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-31 V. Loiko , Ya Shnir

We analyze the classical stability of Q-tubes --- charged extended objects in $(3+1)$-dimensional complex scalar field theory. Explicit solutions were found analytically in the piecewise parabolic potential. Our choice of potential allows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-29 E. Nugaev , A. Shkerin

Solitonic scalar field configurations are studied in a theory coupled to gravity. It is found that non-topological solitons, Q-balls, are present in the theory. Properties of gravitationally self coupled Q-balls are studied by analytical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Multamaki , I. Vilja

We study $Q$-ball type solitons in arbitrary spatial dimensions in the setting recently described by Kusenko, where the scalar field potential has a flat direction which rises much slower than $\phi^2$. We find that the general formula for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 R. B. MacKenzie , M. B. Paranjape

We study the formation of Q-balls which are made of flat directions that appear in the supersymmetric extension of the standard model in the context of gravity-mediated supersymmetry breaking. The full non-linear calculations for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Kasuya , M. Kawasaki

In the present work we investigate the existence and stability properties of q-balls which consist of a couple of scalar fields, forming an SU(2) doublet in a Lagrangian with a global SU(2) symmetry. We find that these spinors can form a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Athanasios Prikas