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- Calore, Francesca, et al.
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511 keV line constraints on feebly interacting particles from supernovae
- 2022
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Ingår i: Physical Review D. - 2470-0010 .- 2470-0029. ; 105:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Feebly interacting particles with masses with O(10-100) MeV can be copiously produced by core-collapse supernovae (SNe). In this paper we consider the case of MeV-ish sterile neutrinos and dark photons mixed with ordinary neutrinos and photons, respectively. Furthermore, both sterile neutrinos and dark photons may decay into positrons on their route to Earth. Such positrons would annihilate with electrons in the Galactic medium and contribute to the photon flux in the 511 keV line. Using the spectrometer on INTEGRAL observation of this line improves the bounds on the mixing parameters for these particles by several orders of magnitude below what is already excluded by the SN 1987A energy-loss argument.
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- Calore, Francesca, et al.
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Uncovering axionlike particles in supernova gamma-ray spectra
- 2024
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Ingår i: Physical Review D. - 2470-0010 .- 2470-0029. ; 109:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A future Galactic supernova (SN) explosion can lead to a gamma-ray signal induced by ultralight axionlike particles (ALPs) thermally produced in the SN core and converted into high-energy photons in the Galactic magnetic field. The detection of such a signal is in the reach of the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. The observation of gamma-ray emission from a future SN has a sensitivity to gaγ≳4×10−13 GeV−1 for a SN at fiducial distance of 10 kpc and would allow us to reconstruct the ALP-photon coupling within a factor of ∼2, mainly due to the uncertainties on the modeling of the Galactic magnetic field.
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- Carenza, Pierluca, 1995-, et al.
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Comprehensive constraints on heavy sterile neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae
- 2024
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Ingår i: Physical Review D. - 2470-0010 .- 2470-0029. ; 109:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sterile neutrinos with masses up to (100) MeV can be copiously produced in a supernova (SN) core through the mixing with active neutrinos. In this regard, the SN 1987A detection of neutrino events has been used to put constraints on active-sterile neutrino mixing, exploiting the well-known SN cooling argument. We refine the calculation of this limit including neutral current interactions with nucleons, which constitute the dominant channel for sterile neutrino production. We also include, for the first time, the charged current interactions between sterile neutrinos and muons, relevant for the production of sterile neutrinos mixed with muon neutrinos in the SN core. Using the recent modified luminosity criterion, we extend the bounds to the case where sterile states are trapped in the stellar core. Additionally, we study the decays of heavy sterile neutrinos, affecting the SN explosion energy and possibly producing a gamma-ray signal. We also illustrate the complementarity of our new bounds with cosmological bounds and laboratory searches.
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- Carenza, Pierluca, 1995-, et al.
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Cross section for supernova axion observation in neutrino water Čherenkov detectors
- 2024
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Ingår i: Physical Review C. - 2469-9985 .- 2469-9993. ; 109:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Axions coupled to nucleons might be copiously emitted from core-collapse supernovae (SNe). If the axion-nucleon coupling is strong enough, then axions would be emitted from the SN as a burst and, reaching Earth, may excite the oxygen nuclei in water Čherenkov detectors (16O+a→16O∗). This process will be followed by decay(s) of the excited state resulting in an emission of photons and thus providing a possibility for a direct detection of axions from a galactic SN in large underground neutrino Čherenkov detectors. Motivated by this possibility, we present an updated calculation of axion-oxygen cross section obtained by using self-consistent continuum random-phase approximation. We calculate the branching ratio of the oxygen nucleus deexcitation into γ rays, neutrons, protons, and α particles and also consider photon emission from secondary nuclei to compute a total γ spectrum created when axions excite 16O. These results are used to revisit the detectability of axions from SN 1987A in Kamiokande-II.
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- Carenza, Pierluca, 1995-, et al.
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Probing the blue axion with cosmic optical background anisotropies
- 2023
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Ingår i: Physical Review D. - 2470-0010 .- 2470-0029. ; 107:8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A radiative decaying big bang relic with a mass ma≃5–25 eV, which we dub “blue axion,” can be probed with direct and indirect observations of the cosmic optical background (COB). The strongest bounds on blue-axion cold dark matter come from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) measurements of COB anisotropies at 606 nm. We suggest that new HST measurements at higher frequencies (336 nm and 438 nm) can improve current constraints on the lifetime up to one order of magnitude, and we show that also thermally produced and hot relic blue axions can be competitively probed by COB anisotropies. We exclude the simple interpretation of the excess in the diffuse COB detected by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as photons produced by a decaying hot relic. Finally, we comment on the reach of upcoming line intensity mapping experiments, that could detect blue axions with a lifetime as large as 1026 s or 1027 s for the cold dark matter and the hot relic case, respectively.
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- Lella, Alessandro, et al.
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Getting the most on supernova axions
- 2024
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Ingår i: Physical Review D. - 2470-0010 .- 2470-0029. ; 109:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Axionlike particles (ALPs) coupled to nucleons might be copiously emitted from a supernova (SN) core. We extend existing bounds on free-streaming ALPs to the case in which these are so strongly interacting with the nuclear matter to be trapped in the SN core. For strongly interacting ALPs, we also extend the bound from the absence of an ALP-induced signal in Kamiokande-II neutrino detector at the time of SN 1987A. We find that combining the different arguments, SNe exclude values of ALP-nucleon coupling gaN≳10−9 for ALP masses ma≲1 MeV. Remarkably, in the case of canonical QCD axion models, the SN bounds exclude all values of ma≳10−2 eV. This result prevents the possibility for current and future cosmological surveys to detect any signatures due to hot dark matter QCD axion mass.
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- Lella, Alessandro, et al.
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Protoneutron stars as cosmic factories for massive axionlike particles
- 2023
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Ingår i: Physical Review D. - 2470-0010 .- 2470-0029. ; 107:10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The parameter space of massive axionlike particles (ALPs) with ma similar to O(100) MeV and coupled with nucleons is largely unexplored. Here, we present new constraints in this parameter region. In doing so, we characterize the supernova emissivity of heavy ALPs from a protoneutron star, including for the first time mass effects in both nucleon-nucleon Bremsstrahlung and pionic Compton processes. In addition, we highlight novel possibilities to probe the couplings with photons and leptons from supernova ALP decays.
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- Lucente, Giuseppe, et al.
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Axion signatures from supernova explosions through the nucleon electric-dipole portal
- 2022
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Ingår i: Physical Review D. - 2470-0010 .- 2470-0029. ; 105:12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We consider axions coupled to nucleons and photons only through the nucleon electric-dipole moment (EDM) portal. This coupling is a model-independent feature of QCD axions, which solve the strong CP problem, and might arise as well in more general axionlike particle setups. We revise the supernova (SN) axion emission induced by the nucleon EDM coupling and refine accordingly the SN 1987A bound. Furthermore, we calculate the axion flux from a future Galactic SN and show that it might produce a peculiar and potentially detectable gamma-ray signal in a large underground neutrino detector such as the proposed Hyper-Kamiokande. The possibility to detect such a signal offers a way to search for an oscillating nucleon EDM complementary to CASPERe, without relying on the assumption that axions are a sizeable component of the dark matter. Furthermore, if axions from SN produce an observable signal, they could also lead to an amount of cosmological extra radiation observable in future cosmic surveys.
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- Lucente, Giuseppe, et al.
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Constraining Heavy Axionlike Particles by Energy Deposition in Globular Cluster Stars
- 2022
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Ingår i: Physical Review Letters. - 0031-9007 .- 1079-7114. ; 129:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Heavy axionlike particles (ALPs) with masses up to a few 100 keV and coupled with photons can be efficiently produced in stellar plasmas. We present a new “ballistic” recipe that covers both the energy-loss and energy-transfer regimes, and we perform the first dedicated simulation of Globular Cluster stars including the ALP energy transfer. This argument allows us to constrain ALPs with ma≲0.4 MeV and gaγ≃10−5 GeV−1, probing a section of the ALP parameter space informally known as the “cosmological triangle”. This region is particularly interesting since it has been excluded only using standard cosmological arguments that can be evaded in nonstandard scenarios.
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