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Q-balls are non-topological solitons arising in scalar field theories. Solutions for rotating Q-balls (and the related boson stars) have been shown to exist when the angular momentum is equal to an integer multiple of the Q-ball charge $Q$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-11 Yahya Almumin , Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Christopher B. Verhaaren

Relativistic scalar field theories with a conserved global charge Q possess often (meta)stable spherically symmetric soliton solutions, called Q-balls. We elaborate on the perfect formal analogy which exists between Q-balls, and spherically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Enqvist , M. Laine

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 numerically study the formation of the gauge-mediation type Q balls in the logarithmic square potential on three-dimensional lattices. We obtain the broad charge distribution of the Q ball of this type for the first time. The charge of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-23 Shinta Kasuya , Masahiro Kawasaki

Within the framework of general relativity, it can be shown that gravitational waves are radiated with the merger of massive compact objects. Such gravitational wave signals are observed on Earth on various detectors, in particular, on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 Alexander Libanov

It has been recently suggested that stable, supersymmetric B-balls formed in the early universe could not only be the dark matter at the present epoch, but also be responsible for baryogenesis by their partial evaporation at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Robi Banerjee , Karsten Jedamzik

The spectrum of MSSM admits solitons carrying baryonic charge, or B-balls. In an inflationary universe they can be produced in significant numbers by a break-up of a scalar condensate along the flat directions. It is shown that if SUSY…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kari Enqvist

Abelian non-topological solitons with Baryon and/or Lepton quantum numbers naturally appear in the spectrum of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. They arise as a consequence of the existence of flat directions in the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Axenides , E. G. Floratos , G. K. Leontaris , N. D. Tracas

We construct nontopological solitonic solutions in (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime carrying a conserved global U(1) charge and nonvanishing angular momentum in a supersymmetric extension of the standard model with low-energy,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-14 L. Campanelli , M. Ruggieri

We investigate the scenario that one flat direction creates baryon asymmetry of the unverse, while Q balls from another direction can be the dark matter in the gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking for high-scale inflation. Isocurvature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Shinta Kasuya , Masahiro Kawasaki

By extending the scalar sector of the Standard Model (SM) by a U(1) singlet, we show that the electroweak symmetry breaking enables the formation of a stable, electrically neutral, colorless Q-ball which couples to the SM particle spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Demir

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 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

We investigate that the two types of the Q balls explain the baryon asymmetry and the dark matter of the universe in the gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking. The gauge-mediation type Q balls of one flat direction produce baryon asymmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Shinta Kasuya , Masahiro Kawasaki

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander Kusenko , Mikhail Shaposhnikov , P. G. Tinyakov , Igor I. Tkachev

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

In the Affleck-Dine mechanism of baryogenesis, non-topological solitons called Q-balls can be formed. In this work we study the Q-balls which decay during the Big Bang Nucleosythesis (BBN) era. We show that such late-decaying baryonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 Fei Wang , Jin Min Yang

Future experiments may discover new scalar particles with global charges and couplings that allow for solitonic states. If the effective potential has flat directions, the scalar VEV inside a large Q-ball can exceed the particle mass by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 Gia Dvali , Alexander Kusenko , Mikhail Shaposhnikov

We propose a model for the cosmological formation of superheavy Q-Balls in the mass range $10^{-7} \, M_{\odot}$ to $10^{6} \, M_{\odot}$. The model is based on a hidden sector scalar potential motivated by broken scale invariance, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-28 J. McDonald

In this work we deal with non-topological solutions of the Q-ball type in two space-time dimensions, in models described by a single complex scalar field that engenders global symmetry. The main novelty is the presence of stable Q-balls…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-24 D. Bazeia , L. Losano , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes , R. da Rocha