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
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Connection to new physics scale è Couplings arise from new physics at the scale fa è Very weakly interacting!
↵ me ga = C gaee = Ce
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2 Andrew J. Long (UMich)! Testing ALPs with white dwarf cooling [Raffelt (1986)] [Nakagawa, Adachi, Kohyama, & Itoh (1987,88)] Axions are produced via bremstrahlung è axion luminosity:
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3 Andrew J. Long (UMich)! A hint of new physics!
Evidence of anomalous cooling? è Seen in white dwarf, red giant branch, and horizontal branch stars
[Gianno et. al. (2017)] Evidence for ALPs? 0.8 3σ WD+RGB+HB è favored couplings are … 0.6 2σ ]
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4 Andrew J. Long (UMich)! Detecting astrophysical ALPs at Earth
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Predicted signal (is very weak): 2 4 31 2 gaee MWD Tc F 4 10 erg/cm /sec 13 7 ' ⇥ 10 1 M 10 Kel ✓ ◆✓ ◆ 2 ⇣2 ⌘ 2 2 ga BT L dWD 10 11/GeV 5T 100 cm 10 pc
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Often compact stars already sustain strong B-fields è Neutron stars (magnetars): ~1012 – 1015 Gauss è Magnetic white dwarfs: ~106 – 109 Gauss
The conversion of axions into photons will occur near the star!
è Previous talk: Kuver Sinha … axions from magnetars produce an X-ray signal
è This talk: Andrew Long … axions from magnetic white dwarfs produce an X-ray signal
è Next talk: Josh Foster … dropping axion dark matter onto a magnetic neutron star produces a radio signal
6 Andrew J. Long (UMich)! Axion conversion in MWD magnetosphere [D. E. Morris (1986); Raffelt & Stodolsky (1987)] [For n & Sinha (2018)] [Dessert, Long, & Safdi (2019)] Focus on ALP production in magnetic white dwarfs (MWDs) è ALPs convert to X-ray photons as they exit the star
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7 signal = thermal X-ray emission (Tc ~ 10 K ~ keV) 4 background = surface emission negligible (Teff ~ 10 K)
7 Andrew J. Long (UMich)! Conversion probability (refined calculation)
Axion-photon conversion in a weak & homogenous B-field 2 2 2 pa g B RWD 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 a T ! ⇠
But more generally … è The B-field falls off moving away from the star