%0 Journal Article
%T Supersymmetric Q-balls as dark matter
%A Alexander Kusenko
%A Mikhail Shaposhnikov
%J Physics
%D 1997
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01375-0
%X Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model generically contain stable non-topological solitons, Q-balls, which carry baryon or lepton number. We show that large Q-balls can be copiously produced in the early universe, can survive until the present time, and can contribute to dark matter.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9709492v3