Yang-Mills stars in Higgsed non-Abelian dark matter

Understand

Bosonic field theories with self interactions alongside gravity, generally admit bound states known as solitons.

• Depending upon the spin nature of the field, they can even carry macroscopic intrinsic spin polarization.
• Focusing on the SU($2$) case, we describe polarized solitons in non-Abelian theories with a heavy Higgs, which we refer to as `Yang-Mills stars'.
• Owing to both kinds of self-interactions; repulsive ones arising due to the Yang-Mills structure, while attractive ones arising due to the Higgs exchange; we can have a diverse zoo of solitons.