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Usually the charge and the energy of stable Q-balls vary in a wide range or are even unbounded. In the present paper we study an interesting possibility that this range is parametrically small. In this case the spectra of stable Q-balls look similar to the one of free particles.
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Nugaev, E.Y., Smolyakov, M.N. Particle-like Q-balls. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 9 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2014)009
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