  In this work, we report on the possibility of occurrence of oscillon
configurations in the fourth state of matter. Oscillons are extremely
long-lived, time-periodic, spatially-localised scalar field structures.
Starting from a scalar field theory in 1+1 space-time dimensions, we find out
that small-amplitude oscillons can be obtained in the framework of a $\phi^6$
self-interacting potential. A connection between our results and ideal MHD
theory is established. Perspectives for a development of the present work are
pointed out.
