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Do Direct Detection Experiments Constrain Axionlike Particles Coupled to Electrons?
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Ferreira, Ricardo Z. (author)
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- Marsh, M. C. David (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Fysikum,Oskar Klein-centrum för kosmopartikelfysik (OKC)
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- Müller, Eike (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Fysikum,Oskar Klein-centrum för kosmopartikelfysik (OKC)
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- 2022
- 2022
- English.
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In: Physical Review Letters. - 0031-9007 .- 1079-7114. ; 128:22
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- Several laboratory experiments have published limits on axionlike particles (ALPs) with feeble couplings to electrons and masses in the kilo-electron-volt to mega-electron-volt range, under the assumption that such ALPs comprise the dark matter. We note that ALPs decay radiatively into photons, and show that for a large subset of the parameter space ostensibly probed by these experiments, the lifetime of the ALPs is shorter than the age of the Universe. Such ALPs cannot consistently make up the dark matter, which significantly affects the interpretation of published limits from GERDA, Edelweiss-III, SuperCDMS, and Majorana. Moreover, constraints from x-ray and γ-ray astronomy exclude a wide range of the ALP-electron coupling, and supersede all current laboratory limits on dark matter ALPs in the 6 keV to 1 MeV mass range. These conclusions are rather model independent, and can only be avoided at the expense of significant fine-tuning in theories where the ALP has additional couplings to other particles.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Subatomär fysik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Subatomic Physics (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)
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