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arxiv: hep-ph/9909509 · v3 · submitted 1999-09-25 · ✦ hep-ph

Q-ball Formation through Affleck-Dine Mechanism

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keywords q-ballaffleck-dinechargescondensateformationinitialmechanismq-balls
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We present the full nonlinear calculation of the formation of a Q-ball through the Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism by numerical simulations. It is shown that large Q-balls are actually produced by the fragmentation of the condensate of a scalar field whose potential is very flat. We find that the typical size of a Q-ball is determined by the most developed mode of linearized fluctuations, and almost all the initial charges which the AD condensate carries are absorbed into the formed Q-balls, whose sizes and the charges depend only on the initial charge densities.

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