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Gravitational effects on critical Q-balls

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v6

Abstract

In a cosmological phase transition in theories that admit Q-balls there is a value of the soliton charge above which the soliton becomes unstable and expands, converting space to the true vacuum, much like a critical bubble in the case of ordinary tunneling. Here I consider the effects of gravity on these solitons and I calculate the lowest gravitational corrections to the critical radius and charge.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0411385,
  title  = {Gravitational effects on critical Q-balls},
  author = {Dimitrios Metaxas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0411385},
  year   = {2008}
}

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LaTeX, 8 pages, final version to appear in EPL

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