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Higgs assisted Q-balls from pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons
- Abstract:
- Motivated by recent constructions of TeV-scale strongly-coupled dynamics, either associated with the Higgs sector itself as in pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) Higgs models or in theories of asymmetric dark matter, we show that stable solitonic Q-balls can be formed from light pion-like pNGB fields carrying a conserved global quantum number in the presence of the Higgs field. We focus on the case of thick-wall Q-balls, where solutions satisfying all constraints are shown to exist over a range of parameter values. In the limit that our approximations hold, the Q-balls are weakly bound and parametrically large, and the form of the interactions of the light physical Higgs with the Q-ball is determined by the breaking of scale symmetry.
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- Published
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- 10.1007/JHEP11(2017)179
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- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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- Journal of High Energy Physics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2017
- Issue:
- 11
- Article number:
- 179
- Publication date:
- 2017-11-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-24
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1029-8479
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- Bishara et al
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- 2017
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