Affleck-Dine dynamics, Q-ball formation, and thermalization

作者:Tsumagari Mitsuo I*
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2009, 80(8): 085010.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.80.085010

摘要

We present both analytically and numerically a consistent analysis of the dynamics from the Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism to the subsequent semiclassical evolution in both gravity-mediated and gauge-mediated models. We obtain analytically the elliptic motions in the AD dynamics as the analogy of the well-known Kepler-problem, and by solving the equations of motion on a lattice, we find that the semiclassical evolution goes through three distinct stages as a nonequilibrium process of reheating the Universe: prethermalization, bubble collisions and thermalization. We report that the second stage of our case lasts rather long compared to the second stage of the reheating case, and the thermalization process is unique due to the presence of "thermal Q-balls''.

  • 出版日期2009-10