The Sun in Hidden Photons
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2012-02-23 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
We present some aspects and first results of the emission of sub-eV mass hidden photons from the Sun. The contribution from a resonant region below the photosphere can be quite significant, raising previous estimates. This is relevant for the Telescope for Hidden Photon Search, TSHIPS I, currently targeting at meV-mass hidden photons with O(10^-6) kinetic mixing with the photon. These particles could account for the large effective number of neutrinos pointed at by the cosmic microwave background and other large-scale structure probes, and are motivated in some scenarios of string theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1202.4932,
title = {The Sun in Hidden Photons},
author = {Javier Redondo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.4932},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures. Contribution to the 7th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, 27 June - 1 July 2011, Mykonos, Greece