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Differentiating Dilatons from Axions by their mixing with photons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-01-19 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

According to the model (Λ\LambdaCDM), based on deep cosmological observations, the current universe is constituted of 5%\% baryonic matter and 25 %\% non-baryonic cold dark matter (of speculative origin). These include quanta of scalar filed like dilaton(ϕ\phi) of scale symmetry origin and quanta of pseudoscalar field of extra standard model symmetry ( Peccei-Quinn) origin, like axion (ϕ\phi'). These fields couple to di-photons through dim-5 operators. In magnetized medium, they in principle can interact with the three degrees of freedom (two transverse (A,A_{\parallel,\perp}) and one longitudinal (ALA_{L})) of photon(γ\gamma) as long as the total spin is conserved. Because of intrinsic spin being zero, both ϕ\phi and ϕ\phi' could in principle have interacted with ALA_{L}, (having sz=0s_{z}=0). However, out of ϕ\phi and ϕ\phi' only one interacts with ALA_{L}. Furthermore, the ambient external magnetic field and media, breaks the intrinsic Lorentz symmetry of the system invoking Charge conjugation, Parity and Time reversal symmetries, we analyse the mixing dynamics of ϕγ\phi\gamma and ϕγ\phi'\gamma systems and the structural {\it difference} of their mixing pattern. The strength of electromagnetic (EM) signals due to ϕγ\phi\gamma and ϕγ\phi'\gamma mixing as a result would be {\it different}. We conclude by commenting on the possibility of detecting this {\it difference} -- in polarimetric observables the EMS -- using the existing space-borne detectors.

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@article{arxiv.2107.11594,
  title  = {Differentiating Dilatons from Axions by their mixing with photons},
  author = {Ankur Chaubey and Manoj K. Jaiswal and Damini Singh and Venktesh Singh and Avijit K. Ganguly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.11594},
  year   = {2022}
}

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