The fate of small classically stable Q-balls

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2017)131MaRDI QIDQ1707798zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Peng Zhang

Publication date 3 April 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05279

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMnonperturbative effectssolitons monopoles and instantons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: The smallest classically stable Q-balls are, in fact, generically metastable: in quantum theory they decay into free particles via collective tunneling. We derive general semiclassical method to calculate the rate of this process in the entire kinematical region of Q-ball metastability. Our method uses Euclidean field-theoretical solutions resembling the Coleman's bounce and fluctuations around them. As an application of the method, we numerically compute the decay rate to the leading semiclassical order in a particular one-field model. We shortly discuss cosmological implications of metastable Q-balls.

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