Saxion Emission from SN1987A

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2002-07-07

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0207098v2

JHEP 0302 (2003) 036

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

18 pages, 2 figures; minor changes, typos corrected, version to appear in JHEP

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2003/02/036

We study the possibility of emission of the saxion, a superpartner of the axion, from SN1987A. The fact that the observed neutrino pulse from SN1987A is in excellent agreement with the current theory of supernovae places a strong bound on the energy loss into any non-standard model channel, therefore enabling bounds to be placed on the decay constant, f_a, of a light saxion. The low-energy coupling of the saxion, which couples at high energies to the QCD gauge field strength, is expected to be enhanced from QCD scaling, making it interesting to investigate if the saxion could place stronger bounds on f_a than the axion itself. Moreover, since the properties of the saxion are determined by f_a, a constraint on this parameter can be translated into a constraint on the supersymmetry breaking scale. We find that the bound on f_a from saxion emission is comparable with the one derived from axion emission due to a cancellation of leading-order terms in the soft-radiation expansion.

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