Red giant bound on the axion-electron coupling reexamined

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1994-10-03

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9410205v1

Phys.Rev.D51:1495-1498,1995

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

11 pages, uuencoded and compressed postscript file

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.51.1495

If axions or other low-mass pseudoscalars couple to electrons (``fine structure constant'' $\alpha_a$) they are emitted from red giant stars by the Compton process $\gamma+e\to e+a$ and by bremsstrahlung $e+(Z,A)\to (Z,A)+e+a$. We construct a simple analytic expression for the energy-loss rate for all conditions relevant for a red giant and include axion losses in evolutionary calculations from the main sequence to the helium flash. We find that $\alpha_a\lapprox0.5\mn(-26)$ or $m_a\lapprox 9\,\meV/\cos^2\beta$ lest the red giant core at helium ignition exceed its standard mass by more than $0.025\,\MM_\odot$, in conflict with observational evidence. Our bound is the most restrictive limit on $\alpha_a$, but it does not exclude the possibility that axion emission contributes significantly to the cooling of ZZ~Ceti stars such as G117--B15A for which the period decrease was recently measured.

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