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Bosons carrying a conserved charge can form stable bound states if their Lagrangian contains attractive self-interactions. Bound-state configurations with a large charge $Q$ can be described classically and are denoted as Q-balls, their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-01 Julian Heeck , Mikheil Sokhashvili

In supersymmetric generalizations of the Standard Model, all stable Q-balls are associated with some flat directions. We show that, if the flat direction has both the baryon number and the lepton number, the scalar field inside the Q-ball…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ian M. Shoemaker , Alexander Kusenko

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

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 study {\it analytically} the physical and mathematical properties of spatially regular massless scalar field configurations which are non-minimally coupled to the electromagnetic field of a spherically symmetric charged reflecting shell.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Shahar Hod

Q-balls are non-topological solitonic solutions to a wide class of field theories that possess global symmetries. Here we show that in these same theories there also exists a tower of novel composite Q-ball solutions where, within one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Edmund J. Copeland , Paul M. Saffin , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We study one- and two-soliton solutions of noncommutative Chern-Simons theory coupled to a nonrelativistic or a relativistic scalar field. In the nonrelativistic case, we find a tower of new stationary time-dependent solutions, all with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Leszek Hadasz , Ulf Lindstrom , Martin Rocek , Rikard von Unge

Stable non-topological solitons, Q-balls, are studied using analytical and numerical methods. Three different physically interesting potentials that support Q-ball solutions are considered: two typical polynomial potentials and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Tuomas Multamaki , Iiro Vilja

We examine the energetics of Q-balls in Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory in two space dimensions. Whereas gauged Q-balls are unallowed in this dimension in the absence of a Chern-Simons term due to a divergent electromagnetic energy, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Deshaies-Jacques , R. MacKenzie

All supersymmetric generalizations of the Standard Model allow for stable non-topological solitons of the Q-ball type which may have non-zero baryon and lepton numbers, as well as the electric charge. These solitons can be produced in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Alexander Kusenko

In this study it is demonstrated that a simple picture of the QCD gluon liquid emerges in the dynamical quasiparticle model that specifies the active degrees of freedom in the time-like sector and yields a potential energy density in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Cassing

Direct analytical and numerical calculation show that two-electron atomic configuration can be unstable with respect to a static or dynamic shift of the electron shells. This enables to develop a so called non-rigid shell model for a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. D. Panov , A. S. Moskvin

Complex scalars in U(1)-symmetric potentials can form stable Q-balls, non-topological solitons that correspond to spherical bound-state solutions. If the U(1) charge of the Q-ball is large enough, it can support a tower of unstable radial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-09 Yahya Almumin , Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Christopher B. Verhaaren

The (2 + 1)-dimensional Maxwell-Chern-Simons gauge model consisting of two complex scalar fields interacting through a common Abelian gauge field is considered. It is shown that the model has a solution that describes a soliton system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-16 A. Yu. Loginov , V. V. Gauzshtein

We demonstrate the existence of Q-balls in non-minimally coupled inflation models with a complex inflaton in the Palatini formulation of gravity. We show that there exist Q-ball solutions which are compatible with inflation and we derive a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-31 A. K. Lloyd-Stubbs , J. McDonald

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

A new method is presented for the quantitative measurement of charge separation about the reaction plane. A correlation function is obtained whose shape is concave when there is a net separation of positive and negative charges.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-02-28 N. N. Ajitanand , Roy A. Lacey , A. Taranenko , J. M. Alexander

A system of nontopological solitons interacting through scalar and vector meson exchange is used to model nuclear matter. The models studied are of the Friedberg-Lee type, which exhibit dynamical bag formation due to the coupling of quarks…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nir Barnea , Timothy S. Walhout

We examine the energetics of $Q$-balls in Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory in two space dimensions. Whereas gauged $Q$-balls are unallowed in this dimension in the absence of a Chern-Simons term due to a divergent electromagnetic energy, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-07 M. Deshaies-Jacques , R. MacKenzie

Quantum electrodynamics in a (2+1)-dimensional space-time has been object of studies both as effective theory for the pseudogap phase of high-T_c superconductors and for the theoretical investigation of mechanisms of confinement in presence…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Fiore , Pietro Giudice , Domenico Giuliano , Donatella Marmottini , Alessandro Papa , Pasquale Sodano