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Tomasz Romańczukiewicz1, Yakov Shnir2
1Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Theoretical Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, 30-348 Kraków, Poland.
Abstract:
We study long-term evolution of radiating quasi-Q-balls in 1+1 dimensional models without mass threshold. Two different models are considered, the model with a rational modification of the usual Q-ball sextic potential and the model of a Q-ball in a box with outgoing boundary conditions. We find that the outgoing boundary conditions modify the angular frequency of quasi-Q-balls which becomes complex-valued. The quasi-Q-balls decay initially very similarly but, in the last stage, quasi-Q-balls in a box become linear resonances, whereas in the rationally modified model, they decay according to some power law.
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