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Testing Axion-Like Particles with X-Ray Emission from Magnetic White Dwarf Stars with Chris Dessert & Ben Safdi (1903.05088) Testing axion-like particles with X-ray emission from magnetic white dwarf stars Andrew J. Long! University of Michigan! @ Pheno 2019! May 6, 2019! Andrew J. Long (UMich)! Axion-like particles Interactions with Standard Model particles è Leading-order interactions are dimension-5 operators 1 2 1 2 2 1 ˜ gaee µ LALP = @µa maa gaγγaF F + e¯γ γ5e @µa <latexit sha1_base64="GTaulMhEoRVDObf0l5fDE/+0Vsc=">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</latexit> 2 − 2 − 4 2me ··· Connection to new physics scale è Couplings arise from new physics at the scale fa è Very weakly interacting! ↵ me gaγγ = Cγ gaee = Ce <latexit sha1_base64="x+W8EdRb/ARZAsGjGEzh9O/kuzQ=">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</latexit> 2⇡fa <latexit sha1_base64="Wxw5e0d7E2h4SHbLD/xUsn/b+a4=">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</latexit> fa 2 Andrew J. Long (UMich)! 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