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Analytic description of monodromy oscillons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-09-18 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We develop precise analytic description of oscillons - long-lived quasiperiodic field lumps - in scalar field theories with nearly quadratic potentials, e.g. the monodromy potential. Such oscillons are essentially nonperturbative due to large amplitudes, and they achieve extreme longevities. Our method is based on a consistent expansion in the anharmonicity of the potential at strong fields, which is made accurate by introducing a field-dependent "running mass." At every order, we compute effective action for the oscillon profile and other parameters. Comparison with explicit numerical simulations in (3+1)-dimensional monodromy model shows that our method is significantly more precise than other analytic approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2306.06171,
  title  = {Analytic description of monodromy oscillons},
  author = {D. G. Levkov and V. E. Maslov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06171},
  year   = {2023}
}

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9 pages, 9 figures; v2: Introduction, Sec. 4 and Discussion extended; journal version

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