Mar 24 – 27, 2025
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425
US/Pacific timezone

Q-balls with an Attractive Force

Mar 25, 2025, 3:45 PM
15m
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425

UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425

475 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 darkmatter@physics.ucla.edu

Speaker

Philip Lu (KIAS)

Description

We consider the Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin Q-ball with a renormalizable cubic interaction. This attractive Yukawa interaction balances the quartic interaction and results in more compact Q-balls with a maximum stable charge. We show that our numerical simulations match our analytic calculations of the maximum charge. Additionally, we consider the fate of these unstable Q-balls with excess charge, and their possible implications for cosmology.

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