arXiv:hep-ph/9801212·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Star Wreck
Alexander Kusenko🇨🇭 · Mikhail Shaposhnikov🇨🇭 · P. G. Tinyakov🇷🇺 · Igor I. Tkachev🇷🇺
Abstract
Electroweak models with low-energy supersymmetry breaking predict the existence of stable non-topological solitons, Q-balls, that can be produced in the early universe. The relic Q-balls can accumulate inside a neutron star and gradually absorb the baryons into the scalar condensate. This causes a slow reduction in the mass of the star. When the mass reaches a critical value, the neutron star becomes unstable and explodes. The cataclysmic destruction of the distant neutron stars may be the origin of the gamma-ray bursts.
Comments: 9 pages; references added