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

Abstract

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.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]
  1. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
  2. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  3. Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1638657
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1797538
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-20-270-T; arXiv:2007.00650
Journal ID: ISSN 2212-6864; oai:inspirehep.net:1804560
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics of the Dark Universe
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 32; Journal ID: ISSN 2212-6864
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Croon, Djuna, McDermott, Samuel D., and Sakstein, Jeremy. Missing in axion: Where are XENON1T’s big black holes?. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1016/j.dark.2021.100801.
Croon, Djuna, McDermott, Samuel D., & Sakstein, Jeremy. Missing in axion: Where are XENON1T’s big black holes?. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2021.100801
Croon, Djuna, McDermott, Samuel D., and Sakstein, Jeremy. 2021. "Missing in axion: Where are XENON1T’s big black holes?". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2021.100801. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1638657.
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title = {Missing in axion: Where are XENON1T’s big black holes?},
author = {Croon, Djuna and McDermott, Samuel D. and Sakstein, Jeremy},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1016/j.dark.2021.100801},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1638657}, journal = {Physics of the Dark Universe},
issn = {2212-6864},
number = ,
volume = 32,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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