Higgs assisted Q-balls from pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons
Higgs assisted Q-balls from pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons
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 …