Supernova Cooling in a Dark Matter Smog
- Creators
- Zhang, Yue
Abstract
A light hidden gauge boson with kinetic mixing with the usual photon is a popular setup in theories of dark matter. The supernova cooling via radiating the hidden boson is known to put an important constraint on the mixing. I consider the possible role dark matter, which under reasonable assumptions naturally exists inside supernova, can play in the cooling picture. Because the interaction between the hidden gauge boson and DM is likely unsuppressed, even a small number of dark matter compared to protons inside the supernova could dramatically shorten the free streaming length of the hidden boson. A picture of a dark matter "smog" inside the supernova, which substantially relaxes the cooling constraint, is discussed in detail.
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© 2014 IOP Publishing. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Article funded by SCOAP3. Received November 4, 2014; Accepted November 15, 2014; Published November 27, 2014. I would like to thank Haipeng An, Clifford Cheung, Rabi Mohapatra, Goran Senjanović, Mark Wise and Haibo Yu for useful discussions, and especially Shmuel Nussinov on illuminating conversation on the back reaction on dark matter in the supernova. This work is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Grant No. 776 to the Caltech Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics, and by the DOE Grant DE-FG02-92ER40701.Attached Files
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- 45670
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20140512-094346126
- 776
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- DE-FG02-92ER40701
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- SCOAP3
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2014-05-12Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-10Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Caltech Theory, Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics