Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1997-11-28
Phys.Lett. B425 (1998) 309-321
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
20 pages, 2 figures, final version for publication
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00271-8
We show that Q-balls naturally exist in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with soft SUSY breaking terms of the minimal N=1 SUGRA type. These are associated with the F- and D-flat directions of the scalar potential once radiative corrections are taken into account. We consider two distinct cases, corresponding to the "H_u L" (slepton) direction with L-balls and the "udd" and "uude" (squark) directions with B-balls. The L-ball always has a small charge, typically of the order of 1000, whilst the B-ball can have an arbitrarily large charge, which, when created cosmologically by the collapse of an unstable Affleck-Dine condensate, is likely to be greater that 10^14. The B-balls typically decay at temperatures less than that of the electroweak phase transition, leading to a novel version of Affleck-Dine baryogenesis, in which the B asymmetry comes from Q-ball decay rather than condensate decay. This mechanism can work even in the presence of additional L violating interactions or B-L conservation, which would rule out conventional Affleck-Dine baryogenesis.
Enqvist Kari
McDonald Janece
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