3 research outputs found
Revisiting the Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin soliton model
Non-topological solitons are localized classical field configurations
stabilized by a Noether charge. Friedberg, Lee, and Sirlin proposed a simple
renormalizable soliton model in their seminal 1976 paper, consisting of a
complex scalar field that carries the Noether charge and a real-scalar
mediator. We revisit this model, point out commonalities and differences with
Q-ball solitons, and provide analytic approximations to the underlying
differential equations.Comment: 9 pages, matches EPJC versio
The Tunneling Potential Approach to Q-Balls
Q-balls are bound-state configurations of complex scalars stabilized by a
conserved Noether charge Q. They are solutions to a second-order differential
equation that is structurally identical to Euclidean vacuum-decay bounce
solutions in three dimensions. This enables us to translate the recent
tunneling potential approach to Q-balls, which amounts to a reformulation of
the problem that can simplify the task of finding approximate and even exact
Q-ball solutions.Comment: 16 page
Lepton flavor violation by two units
Charged lepton flavor violation arises in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory at mass dimension six. The operators that induce neutrinoless muon and tauon decays are among the best constrained and are sensitive to new-physics scales up to 107GeV. An entirely different class of lepton-flavor-violating operators violates lepton flavors by two units rather than one and does not lead to such clean signatures. Even the well-known case of muonium–anti-muonium conversion that falls into this category is only sensitive to two out of the three ΔLμ=−ΔLe=2 dimension-six operators. We derive constraints on many of these operators from lepton flavor universality and show how to make further progress with future searches at Belle II and future experiments such as Z factories or muon colliders