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| author | Hardy, Edward Sokolov, Anton Stubbs, Henry |
| author_facet | Hardy, Edward Sokolov, Anton Stubbs, Henry |
| contents | We study supernova cooling constraints on new light scalars that mix with the Higgs, couple only to nucleons, or couple only to leptons. We show that in all these cases scalars with masses smaller than the plasma frequency in the supernova core are efficiently produced by resonant mixing with the in-medium longitudinal degree of freedom of the photon. The resulting bounds are free from uncertainties associated to the rate of emission of the scalar in nucleon-nucleon scatterings, which would otherwise badly affect the Higgs-mixed and nucleophilic scenarios. Heavier scalars that mix with the Higgs or couple only to nucleons are mostly produced by nucleon bremsstrahlung, and we obtain a conservative approximation for the corresponding rate using a soft theorem. We also analyse the impact of different supernova profiles, nucleon degeneracy, trapping and scalar decays on the constraints. |
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| spellingShingle | Supernova bounds on new scalars from resonant and soft emission Hardy, Edward Sokolov, Anton Stubbs, Henry High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We study supernova cooling constraints on new light scalars that mix with the Higgs, couple only to nucleons, or couple only to leptons. We show that in all these cases scalars with masses smaller than the plasma frequency in the supernova core are efficiently produced by resonant mixing with the in-medium longitudinal degree of freedom of the photon. The resulting bounds are free from uncertainties associated to the rate of emission of the scalar in nucleon-nucleon scatterings, which would otherwise badly affect the Higgs-mixed and nucleophilic scenarios. Heavier scalars that mix with the Higgs or couple only to nucleons are mostly produced by nucleon bremsstrahlung, and we obtain a conservative approximation for the corresponding rate using a soft theorem. We also analyse the impact of different supernova profiles, nucleon degeneracy, trapping and scalar decays on the constraints. |
| title | Supernova bounds on new scalars from resonant and soft emission |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17347 |