title: Analytical characterization of oscillon energy and lifetime.
abstract: We develop an analytical procedure to compute all relevant physical properties of scalar field oscillons in models with quartic polynomial potentials: energy, radius, frequency, core amplitude, and lifetime. We compare our predictions to numerical simulations of models with symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials in three spatial dimensions, obtaining excellent agreement. We also explain why oscillons have not been seen to decay in two spatial dimensions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA. gleiser@dartmouth.edu
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gleiser
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sicilia