Properties and signatures of supersymmetric Q-balls
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Supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of Q-balls with baryon and lepton numbers. Stable Q-balls can form at the end of inflation from the fragmentation of the Affleck–Dine condensate and can exist as dark matter. The best current limits come from Super-Kamiokande and MACRO. The search beyond these limits can be conducted using the future water Cherenkov detectors.
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