恒星晚期演化中millicharged粒子的产生
Millicharged Particle Production During Late-Stage Stellar Evolution
AI总结:
研究恒星晚期演化中millicharged粒子的产生机制,通过三种不同过程确定能量损失率,并提供适用于恒星演化的半解析拟合。
摘要:
恒星是产生弱相互作用粒子的自然来源,包括具有质量m_χ和电荷qe的候选粒子。此类millicharged粒子(MCPs)的发射会导致能量损失,从而影响恒星演化。尽管已计算了不同等离子体参数下的MCP产生率,但尚未推导出适用于恒星晚期演化的条件下的速率,其中温度可达到T≈10-100 keV,而等离子体频率ω_pl<<T。本文计算了预超新星物体相关的MCP能量损失率,发现三种不同情形中主导过程分别为等离子体衰变(m_χ<ω_pl/2)、类似康普顿散射(m_χ>ω_pl/2,T≈0.5 MeV)和电子-正电子湮灭。我们获得了适用于恒星演化代码的半解析拟合。
英文摘要:
Stars are natural sources of feebly interacting particles, including putative particles with mass $m_χ$ and electric charge $qe$. The emission of such millicharged particles (MCPs) causes an energy loss which can alter stellar evolution. While MCP production rates have been computed for different plasma parameters, they have yet to be derived for the conditions relevant to late stages of stellar evolution, in which the temperature can reach values $T\simeq 10-100\,\rm keV$ while the plasma frequency is $ω_{\rm pl}\ll T$. In this paper, we compute the MCP energy-loss rates relevant for pre-supernova objects, finding three different regimes in which the dominant processes are respectively plasmon decay ($m_χ< ω_{\rm pl}/2$), Compton-like scattering ($m_χ> ω_{\rm pl}/2$, $T\lesssim 0.5\,\rm MeV$), and electron-positron annihilation. We obtain semi-analytical fits for the energy-loss rates suitable for implementation in stellar evolution codes.
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