Extra dimensions, orthopositronium decay, and stellar cooling

Details Extra dimensions, orthopositronium decay, and stellar cooling Extra dimensions, orthopositronium decay, and stellar cooling

2007-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/0709.2164v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

13 pages, no figures

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In a class of extra dimensional models with a warped metric and a single brane the photon can be localized on the brane by gravity only. An intriguing feature of these models is the possibility of the photon escaping into the extra dimensions. The search for this effect has motivated the present round of precision orthopositronium decay experiments. We point out that in this framework a photon in plasma should be metastable. We consider the astrophysical consequences of this observation, in particular, what it implies for the plasmon decay rate in globular cluster stars and for the core-collapse supernova cooling rate. The resulting bounds on the model parameter exceed the possible reach of orthopositronium experiments by many orders of magnitude.

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