Axion Emission from Red Giants and White Dwarfs

Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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17 pp, 3 PS figures, CERN-TH-7044/93

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10.1016/0927-6505(94)90040-X

Using thermal field theory methods, we recalculate axion emission from dense plasmas. We study in particular the Primakoff and the bremsstrahlung processes. The Primakoff rate is significantly suppressed at high densities, when the electrons become relativistic. However, the bound on the axion-photon coupling, $G<10^{-10}$ GeV, is unaffected, as it is constrained by the evolution of HB stars, which have low densities. In contradistinction, the same relativistic effects enhance the bremsstrahlung processes. From the red giants and white dwarfs evolution, we obtain a conservative bound on the axion-electron coupling, $g_{ae} < 2\times 10^{-13}$.

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