Published May 15, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Solar neutrino limit on axions and keV-mass bosons

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Utah, 115 S 1400 E 201, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 (United States)
  • 2. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Foehringer Ring 6, 80805 Muenchen (Germany)

Description

The all-flavor solar neutrino flux measured by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory constrains nonstandard energy losses to less than about 10% of the Sun's photon luminosity, superseding a helioseismological argument and providing new limits on the interaction strength of low-mass particles. For the axion-photon coupling strength we find gaγ<7x10-10 GeV-1. We also derive explicit limits on the Yukawa coupling to electrons of pseudoscalar, scalar, and vector bosons with keV-scale masses.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
79
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 107301-107301.4
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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