Missing in axion: Where are XENON1T’s big black holes?

Croon, Djuna; McDermott, Samuel D.; Sakstein, Jeremy

doi:10.1016/j.dark.2021.100801

Title: Missing in axion: Where are XENON1T’s big black holes?

Journal Article · Tue Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Physics of the Dark Universe

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2021.100801· OSTI ID:1638657

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TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)

We pioneer the black hole mass gap as a powerful new tool for constraining new particles. A new particle that couples to the Standard Model – such as an axion – acts as an additional source of loss in the cores of population-III stars, suppressing mass lost due to winds and quenching the pair-instability. This results in heavier astrophysical black holes. As an example, using stellar simulations we show that the solar axion explanation of the recent XENON1T excess implies astrophysical black holes of ~56M_⊙, squarely within the black hole mass gap predicted by the Standard Model.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1638657

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1797538

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-20-270-T; arXiv:2007.00650; oai:inspirehep.net:1804560

Journal Information:: Physics of the Dark Universe, Vol. 32; ISSN 2212-6864

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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