Calculations show millicharged particles from supernovae can produce over 10 electron-recoil events per year in major detectors for millicharge 10^{-9} and sub-MeV to MeV masses, improving SN cooling bounds by up to an order of magnitude.
hub Canonical reference
Low-Energy Supernovae Severely Constrain Radiative Particle Decays
Canonical reference. 78% of citing Pith papers cite this work as background.
16
Pith papers citing it
Background
78% of classified citations
abstract
The hot and dense core formed in the collapse of a massive star is a powerful source of hypothetical feebly-interacting particles such as sterile neutrinos, dark photons, axion-like particles (ALPs), and others. Radiative decays such as $a\to2\gamma$ deposit this energy in the surrounding material if the mean free path is less than the radius of the progenitor star. For the first time, we use a supernova (SN) population with particularly low explosion energies as the most sensitive calorimeters to constrain this possibility. These SNe are observationally identified as low-luminosity events with low ejecta velocities and low masses of ejected $^{56}$Ni. Their low energies limit the energy deposition from particle decays to less than about 0.1 B, where $1~{\rm B~(bethe)}=10^{51}~{\rm erg}$. For 1-500 MeV-mass ALPs, this generic argument excludes ALP-photon couplings $G_{a\gamma\gamma}$ in the $10^{-10}$-$10^{-8}~{\rm GeV}^{-1}$ range.
hub tools
citation-role summary
background 8
dataset 1
citation-polarity summary
representative citing papers
A mirror GUT model confines dynamically to produce a heavy axion solving the strong CP problem while allowing observable EDMs and a rich hidden sector.
Limits on axion-like particles from photon-coupling searches are recast as constraints on massive graviton-like particles across lab, astrophysical, and cosmological experiments using analogous Primakoff and Gertsenshtein conversion mechanisms.
An axion-like particle's domain wall or shock wave induces an electroweak phase boundary whose motion creates a local B+L chemical potential that biases active sphalerons to generate net baryon asymmetry.
Differences in filtering and delivery of rigid versus fragile dust to a planet-induced pressure bump reproduce carbonaceous chondrite compositions and ages in a single long-lived dust trap.
Updated supernova ALP production rates including semi-Compton and pair-annihilation channels yield revised bounds on electron couplings, dominated by the decay a to e+ e- gamma at small couplings.
Realistic GRB parameters weaken previous ALP cooling bounds, but ALP-induced secondary fireballs in GRBs could still be probed via isotropic X-ray emission from future telescopes.
Treating longitudinal and transverse polarizations of light Z' bosons independently modifies the SN1987A bounds on their parameter space in the Lμ-Lτ model.
The minimal majoron framework permits simultaneous majoron dark matter and thermal leptogenesis in a constrained cosmological window set by freeze-in production, warm dark matter bounds, and indirect detection limits.
ALP-assisted first-order phase transitions can explain observed intergalactic magnetic fields and produce detectable gravitational waves, linking cosmology with particle physics searches.
Re-evaluation of sub-GeV Lμ-Lτ gauge boson constraints from beam-dump production modes and multiple supernova observables, highlighting differences from existing literature.
Neutron dark decays modify the equation of state and either mildly suppress or strongly enhance bulk viscosity in neutron star merger conditions, depending on the in-medium decay rate.
Analytical expressions for ALP-photon conversion in transient compact stars yield an updated bound g_aγ < 5×10^{-12} GeV^{-1} for m_a ≲ 10^{-9} eV from SN 1987A, plus sensitivity forecasts for future Galactic SN and NSM observations.
FCC-ee can probe ALP-photon couplings down to a few 10^{-6} GeV^{-1} at the Z pole and ~10^{-5} GeV^{-1} at higher energies for ALP masses 5-320 GeV in the three-photon channel.
Solar axion-like particles up to 5.5 MeV produce off-axis MeV photons via two-body decay, enabling new space and terrestrial searches that could probe g_aγ down to 10^{-12} GeV^{-1}.
Review surveying limits and prospects for flavor-violating decays of light axion-like particles, highlighting complementarity of lab, astro, and cosmo probes up to 10^12 GeV scales.
citing papers explorer
-
Direct Detection of Millicharged Particles from Supernovae
Calculations show millicharged particles from supernovae can produce over 10 electron-recoil events per year in major detectors for millicharge 10^{-9} and sub-MeV to MeV masses, improving SN cooling bounds by up to an order of magnitude.
-
Heavy Axion from a Confining Mirror GUT
A mirror GUT model confines dynamically to produce a heavy axion solving the strong CP problem while allowing observable EDMs and a rich hidden sector.
-
Bounds on massive graviton-like particles from searches for axion-like particles coupling to photons
Limits on axion-like particles from photon-coupling searches are recast as constraints on massive graviton-like particles across lab, astrophysical, and cosmological experiments using analogous Primakoff and Gertsenshtein conversion mechanisms.
-
Spontaneous Baryogenesis from Axions on Induced Electroweak Walls
An axion-like particle's domain wall or shock wave induces an electroweak phase boundary whose motion creates a local B+L chemical potential that biases active sphalerons to generate net baryon asymmetry.
-
Baryon Asymmetry from Electroweak-Symmetric Domain Walls
Differences in filtering and delivery of rigid versus fragile dust to a planet-induced pressure bump reproduce carbonaceous chondrite compositions and ages in a single long-lived dust trap.
-
Supernova production of axion-like particles coupling to electrons, reloaded
Updated supernova ALP production rates including semi-Compton and pair-annihilation channels yield revised bounds on electron couplings, dominated by the decay a to e+ e- gamma at small couplings.
-
Reappraisal of the Constraints on Heavy Axion-like Particles from Gamma-Ray Bursts
Realistic GRB parameters weaken previous ALP cooling bounds, but ALP-induced secondary fireballs in GRBs could still be probed via isotropic X-ray emission from future telescopes.
-
SN1987A Constraints of Light $\boldsymbol{Z'}$ with Non-Mixing Polarisations
Treating longitudinal and transverse polarizations of light Z' bosons independently modifies the SN1987A bounds on their parameter space in the Lμ-Lτ model.
-
The Majoron Cosmological Window: Dark Matter and Thermal Leptogenesis
The minimal majoron framework permits simultaneous majoron dark matter and thermal leptogenesis in a constrained cosmological window set by freeze-in production, warm dark matter bounds, and indirect detection limits.
-
Primordial Magnetogenesis and Gravitational Waves from ALP-assisted Phase Transition
ALP-assisted first-order phase transitions can explain observed intergalactic magnetic fields and produce detectable gravitational waves, linking cosmology with particle physics searches.
-
$L_\mu-L_\tau$ gauge bosons in beam dumps and supernovae
Re-evaluation of sub-GeV Lμ-Lτ gauge boson constraints from beam-dump production modes and multiple supernova observables, highlighting differences from existing literature.
-
Bulk viscosity from neutron decays to dark baryons in neutron star matter
Neutron dark decays modify the equation of state and either mildly suppress or strongly enhance bulk viscosity in neutron star merger conditions, depending on the in-medium decay rate.
-
Axion-photon conversion in transient compact stars: Systematics, constraints, and opportunities
Analytical expressions for ALP-photon conversion in transient compact stars yield an updated bound g_aγ < 5×10^{-12} GeV^{-1} for m_a ≲ 10^{-9} eV from SN 1987A, plus sensitivity forecasts for future Galactic SN and NSM observations.
-
Sensitivity of the FCC-ee to axion-like particles at different center-of-mass energies
FCC-ee can probe ALP-photon couplings down to a few 10^{-6} GeV^{-1} at the Z pole and ~10^{-5} GeV^{-1} at higher energies for ALP masses 5-320 GeV in the three-photon channel.
-
Looking for Lights from the Darkness: Signals from MeV-scale Solar Axion-like Particles
Solar axion-like particles up to 5.5 MeV produce off-axis MeV photons via two-body decay, enabling new space and terrestrial searches that could probe g_aγ down to 10^{-12} GeV^{-1}.
-
Flavor phenomenology of light dark particles
Review surveying limits and prospects for flavor-violating decays of light axion-like particles, highlighting complementarity of lab, astro, and cosmo probes up to 10^12 GeV scales.