Q-balls across dimensions
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| author | Aiello, Dusty Heeck, Julian |
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| contents | 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 in three spatial dimensions, these solitons can be straightforwardly generalized to $d$ spatial dimensions. For $d=1$, we can analytically solve the non-linear differential equation for an important class of single-field potentials; for $d>1$, we can analytically approximate the solutions in the thin-wall or large Q-ball regime, including the first sub-leading correction consistently. Since the underlying differential equations have the same form as vacuum-decay bounce solutions, our results find applications there, too. |
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| spellingShingle | Q-balls across dimensions Aiello, Dusty Heeck, Julian High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory 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 in three spatial dimensions, these solitons can be straightforwardly generalized to $d$ spatial dimensions. For $d=1$, we can analytically solve the non-linear differential equation for an important class of single-field potentials; for $d>1$, we can analytically approximate the solutions in the thin-wall or large Q-ball regime, including the first sub-leading correction consistently. Since the underlying differential equations have the same form as vacuum-decay bounce solutions, our results find applications there, too. |
| title | Q-balls across dimensions |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01288 |