Published August 15, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

What are universal features of gravitating Q-balls?

  • 1. Department of Education, Yamagata University, Yamagata 990-8560 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, General Education, College of Engineering, Nihon University, Tokusada, Tamura, Koriyama, Fukushima 963-8642 (Japan)

Description

We investigate how gravity affects Q-balls by exemplifying the case of the Affleck-Dine potential V(φ):=m4ln(1+(φ2/m2)). Surprisingly, stable Q-balls with arbitrarily small charge exist, no matter how weak gravity is, contrary to the case of flat spacetime. We also show analytically that this feature holds true for general models as long as the leading order term of the potential is a positive mass term in its Maclaurin series.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
84
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 044054-044054.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43083232
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
GRAVITATION; MASS; MATTER; SPACE-TIME

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