Fermi Large Area Telescope as a Galactic Supernovae Axionscope
Abstract
In a Galactic core-collapse supernova (SN), axionlike particles (ALPs) could be emitted via the Primakoff process and eventually convert into γ rays in the magnetic field of the Milky Way. From a data-driven sensitivity estimate, we find that, for a SN exploding in our Galaxy, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) would be able to explore the photon-ALP coupling down to gaγ ≃ 2 × 10-13 GeV-1 for an ALP mass ma ≲ 10-9 eV. Also, these values are out of reach of next generation laboratory experiments. In this event, the Fermi LAT would probe large regions of the ALP parameter space invoked to explain the anomalous transparency of the Universe to γ rays, stellar cooling anomalies, and cold dark matter. Lastly, if no γ-ray emission were to be detected, Fermi-LAT observations would improve current bounds derived from SN 1987A by more than 1 order of magnitude.
- Authors:
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- Stockholm Univ. (Sweden). Department of Physics; The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Barry University, Miami Shores, FL (United States). Physical Sciences
- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica Michelangelo Merlin (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nuclearea Sezione di Bari (Italy)
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- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1355749
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1338650
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 118; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
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Meyer, M., Giannotti, M., Mirizzi, A., Conrad, J., and Sánchez-Conde, M. A. Fermi Large Area Telescope as a Galactic Supernovae Axionscope. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.011103.
Meyer, M., Giannotti, M., Mirizzi, A., Conrad, J., & Sánchez-Conde, M. A. Fermi Large Area Telescope as a Galactic Supernovae Axionscope. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.011103
Meyer, M., Giannotti, M., Mirizzi, A., Conrad, J., and Sánchez-Conde, M. A. Fri .
"Fermi Large Area Telescope as a Galactic Supernovae Axionscope". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.011103. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1355749.
@article{osti_1355749,
title = {Fermi Large Area Telescope as a Galactic Supernovae Axionscope},
author = {Meyer, M. and Giannotti, M. and Mirizzi, A. and Conrad, J. and Sánchez-Conde, M. A.},
abstractNote = {In a Galactic core-collapse supernova (SN), axionlike particles (ALPs) could be emitted via the Primakoff process and eventually convert into γ rays in the magnetic field of the Milky Way. From a data-driven sensitivity estimate, we find that, for a SN exploding in our Galaxy, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) would be able to explore the photon-ALP coupling down to gaγ ≃ 2 × 10-13 GeV-1 for an ALP mass ma ≲ 10-9 eV. Also, these values are out of reach of next generation laboratory experiments. In this event, the Fermi LAT would probe large regions of the ALP parameter space invoked to explain the anomalous transparency of the Universe to γ rays, stellar cooling anomalies, and cold dark matter. Lastly, if no γ-ray emission were to be detected, Fermi-LAT observations would improve current bounds derived from SN 1987A by more than 1 order of magnitude.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.011103},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 1,
volume = 118,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {1}
}
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