Abstract
Abstract
We study the scattering processes of kink-antikink and kink-kink pairs in a field theory model with non-differentiable potential at its minima. The kink-antikink scattering includes cases of capture and escape of the soliton pair separated by a critical velocity, without windows of multi bounce followed by escape. Around the critical velocity, the behavior is fractal. The emission of radiation strongly influences the small velocity cases, with the most radiative cases being also the most chaotic. The radiation appears through the emission of compact oscillons and the formation of compact shockwaves. The kink-kink scattering happens elastically, with no emission of radiation. Some features of both the kink-antikink and the kink-kink scattering are explained using a collective coordinate model, even though the kink-kink case exhibits a null-vector problem.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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