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We study the primordial black hole (PBH) formation from Q-balls that are non-topological solitons in scalar field theories. We develop a formula for calculating the density perturbations from the Q-ball charge distribution. We also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-24 Shinta Kasuya , Masahiro Kawasaki , Alexander Kusenko , Shunsuke Neda

The Cold Dark Matter (CDM) hypothesis accurately predicts large-scale structure formation and fits the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature fluctuations (CMB). However, observations of the inner regions of dark matter halos and dwarf…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-04 Susobhan Mandal , S. Shankaranarayanan

The gauge-mediated model of supersymmetry breaking implies that stable non-topological solitons, Q-balls, could form in the early universe and comprise the dark matter. It is shown that the inclusion of the effects from gravity-mediation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 Ian M. Shoemaker

There may exist extended configurations in the dark matter sector that are analogues of structures in the visible sector. In this work, we explore non-topological solitonic configurations, specifically Q-balls, and study when they may form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Arhum Ansari , Lalit Singh Bhandari , Arun M. Thalapillil

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

Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model generically predict that in the early universe a scalar condensate can form and fragment into Q-balls before decaying. If the Q-balls dominate the energy density for some period of time, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Eric Cotner , Alexander Kusenko

Excited Q-balls are studied by numerical simulations in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with supersymmetry broken by a gravity mediated mechanism. It is found that there is a suppression factor of $\cO(10^{-2})$ in the rate at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Tuomas Multamaki

Scalar condensates with large expectation values can form in the early universe, for example, in theories with supersymmetry. The condensate can undergo fragmentation into Q-balls before decaying. If the Q-balls dominate the energy density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Eric Cotner , Alexander Kusenko

Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model predict the existence of non-topological solitons, $Q$-balls. Assuming the standard cosmological history preceded by inflation, $Q$-balls can form in the early universe and can make up the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Eric Cotner , Alexander Kusenko

Gauge-mediated models of supersymmetry-breaking imply that stable Q-balls can form in the early universe and act as dark matter. All stable Q-balls in the MSSM are associated with one or more flat directions. We show that while Q-balls are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-28 Ian M. Shoemaker

MSSM predicts the existence of Q-balls, some of which can be entirely stable. Both stable and unstable Q-balls can play an important role in cosmology. In particular, Affleck-Dine baryogenesis can result in a copious production of stable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Kusenko

We study the formation of Q-balls in the early universe, concentrating on potentials with a cubic or quartic attractive interaction. Large Q-balls can form via solitosynthesis, a process of gradual charge accretion, provided some primordial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Marieke Postma

Can a dynamically robust (\textit{aka} stable) $Q$-ball reproduce the rotation curve of a disk galaxy? In an astrophysical environment, $Q$-balls are non-topological solitons that are transparent and only perceived by their gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Alexandre M. Pombo , Lorenzo Pizzuti , Alessandra di Giacomo

We consider a mechanism of dark matter production in the course of first order phase transition. We assume that there is an asymmetry between X- and anti-X-particles of dark sector. In particular, it may be related to the baryon asymmetry.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-21 E. Krylov , A. Levin , V. Rubakov

Q-ball configuration that represents oscillating or spinning closed membrane is constructed via M(atrix) theory. Upon gravitational collapse Q-balls are expected to form Schwarzschild black holes. For quasi-static spherical membrane, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Soo-Jong Rey

Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model generically contain stable non-topological solitons, Q-balls, which carry baryon or lepton number. We show that large Q-balls can be copiously produced in the early universe, can survive until…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Alexander Kusenko , Mikhail Shaposhnikov

A novel mechanism to build up a supermassive black hole (SMBH) is proposed. Here, relativistic radiation-hydrodynamic processes are considered from a galactic scale to a horizon scale. In the present scenario, the mass of a SMBH is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masayuki Umemura

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

We numerically study the Q-ball formation triggered by a cosmological first-order phase transition within the Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin model. By performing lattice simulations, we track the nonequilibrium dynamics throughout the transition,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Yuan-Jie Li , Jing Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo

As a new type of dynamical dark matter mechanism, we discuss the stability of the gauged Q-ball dark matter and its production mechanism through a cosmological first-order phase transition. This work delves into the study of gauged Q-ball…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-09 Siyu Jiang , Fa Peng Huang , Pyungwon Ko
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