Classical decay rates of oscillons

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/07/055zbMATH Open1493.83025arXiv2004.01202OpenAlexW3103162011MaRDI QIDQ5070293FDOQ5070293

Authors: Mustafa A. Amin, E. J. Copeland, P. M. Saffin, Hongyi Zhang, Kaloian D. Lozanov 

Publication date: 11 April 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Oscillons are extremely long-lived, spatially-localized field configurations in real-valued scalar field theories that slowly lose energy via radiation of scalar waves. Before their eventual demise, oscillons can pass through (one or more) exceptionally stable field configurations where their decay rate is highly suppressed. We provide an improved calculation of the non-trivial behavior of the decay rates, and lifetimes of oscillons. In particular, our calculation correctly captures the existence (or absence) of the exceptionally long-lived states for large amplitude oscillons in a broad class of potentials, including non-polynomial potentials that flatten at large field values. The key underlying reason for the improved (by many orders of magnitude in some cases) calculation is the systematic inclusion of a spacetime-dependent effective mass term in the equation describing the radiation emitted by oscillons (in addition to a source term). Our results for the exceptionally stable configurations, decay rates, and lifetime of large amplitude oscillons (in some cases $gtrsim10^8$ oscillations) in such flattened potentials might be relevant for cosmological applications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01202

zbMATH Keywords

domain wallsmonopolescosmic stringsdark matter theoryphysics of the early universeaxions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Surgery obstructions, Wall groups (57R67) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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