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Scalars carrying a conserved global charge $Q$ can form stable localized field configurations composed of a large number of particles. These non-topological solitons are spherically symmetric and are called Q-balls. While usually analyzed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Dusty Aiello , Julian Heeck

Complex scalar fields charged under a global U(1) symmetry can admit non-topological soliton configurations called Q-balls which are stable against decay into individual particles or smaller Q-balls. These Q-balls are interesting objects…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Rebecca Riley , Christopher B. Verhaaren

We study numerically a class of non-topological solitons, the Q-balls, arising in supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model with low-energy, gauge-mediated symmetry breaking. % Taking into account the exact form of the supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Campanelli , M. Ruggieri

We discuss three different globally regular non-topological stationary soliton solutions in the theory of a complex scalar field in 3+1 dimensions, so-called Q-balls, Q-vortices and Q-walls. The charge, energy and profiles of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Ya Shnir

We study non-topological, charged planar walls (Q-walls) in the context of a particle physics model with supersymmetry broken by low-energy gauge mediation. Analytical properties are derived within the flat-potential approximation for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Leonardo Campanelli , Marco Ruggieri

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

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 investigate spherically symmetric non topological solitons in electrodynamics with a scalar field self interaction U ~|\psi| taken from the complex signum-Gordon model. We find Q-balls for small absolute values of the total electric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-20 H. Arodź , J. Lis

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

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

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

Q-balls are non-topological solitons that arise in theories with a complex scalar field possessing a conserved global U(1) charge. Their stability is ensured by this charge, making them potentially significant in cosmology. In this paper,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Jin Kobayashi , Kazunori Nakayama , Masaki Yamada

Q-balls are non-topological solitons in field theories whose stability is typically guaranteed by the existence of a global conserved charge. A classic realization is the Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin (FLS) Q-ball in a two-scalar system where a real…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 Yu Hamada , Kiyoharu Kawana , TaeHun Kim , Philip Lu

In this thesis we investigate the stationary properties and formation process of a class of nontopological solitons, namely Q-balls. We explore both the quantum-mechanical and classical stability of Q-balls that appear in polynomial,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-23 Mitsuo I. Tsumagari

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

We discuss Q-balls in the complex signum-Gordon model in d-dimensional space for d=1,2,3. The Q-balls have strictly finite radius. Their total energy is a power-like function of the conserved U(1) charge with the exponent equal to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Arodź , J. Lis

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 the energy-momentum tensor of stable, meta-stable and unstable Q-balls in scalar field theories with U(1) symmetry. We calculate properties such as charge, mass, mean square radii and the constant d1 ("D-term") as functions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-03 Manuel Mai , Peter Schweitzer

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

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
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