New Cosmological Constraints on Axions and Axion-Like Particles

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Feb 2011

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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 283, Issue 1, pp. 012003 (2011).

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We present constraints on the axion-photon coupling scale M for light axion-like particles by combining recent Supernova Type Ia data with the latest measurements of the Hubble expansion at redshifts between 0 and 2. Allowing for a coupling between axions and photons leads to a modification of the inferred luminosity distances for supernovae due to the conversion of photons to axions in the presence of intergalactic magnetic fields. We constrain such couplings by considering deviations from the luminosity-angular diameter distance relation dL = dA(1+z)2. We find that for intergalactic magnetic fields of order 1 nG, current supernova and Hubble expansion data rule out a region in the coupling scale M between 1010 and 1011 GeV.

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