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Supernova Constraints on Dark Flavored Sectors

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arxiv 2012.11632 v2 pith:OFJFNGDW submitted 2020-12-21 hep-ph astro-ph.HE

Supernova Constraints on Dark Flavored Sectors

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keywords darksupernovaconstraintscoolinghyperonslambdaallowsaxions
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Proto-neutron stars forming a few seconds after core-collapse supernovae are hot and dense environments where hyperons can be efficiently produced by weak processes. By making use of various state-of-the-art supernova simulations combined with the proper extensions of the equations of state including $\Lambda$ hyperons, we calculate the cooling of the star induced by the emission of dark bosons $X^0$ through the decay $\Lambda\to n X^0$. Comparing this novel energy-loss process to the neutrino cooling of SN 1987A allows us to set stringent constraints on massless dark photons and axions with flavor-violating couplings to quarks. We find that this new supernova bound can be orders of magnitude stronger than other limits in dark-sector models.

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