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Light millicharged particles can be copiously produced from meson decays in cosmic ray collisions with the atmosphere, leading to detectable signals in large underground neutrino detectors. In this paper we study a new channel for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Mingxuan Du , Rundong Fang , Zuowei Liu

Sterile neutrinos can be produced through mixing with active neutrinos in the hot, dense core of a core-collapse supernova (SN). The standard bounds on the active-sterile mixing ($\sin^2 \theta$) from SN arise from SN1987A energy-loss,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 Garv Chauhan , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Patrick Huber , Ian M. Shoemaker

Low-energy cosmic rays are a fundamental source of ionization for molecular clouds, influencing their chemical, thermal and dynamical evolution. The purpose of this work is to explore the possibility that a low-energy component of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli , Alfred E. Glassgold

The generation of narrow beams of high-energy positrons (electrons) in the process of resonant photogeneration of ultrarelativistic electron-positron pairs by high-energy gamma quanta in the field of the nucleus and a strong electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-12 S. P. Roshchupkin , S. S. Starodub

We perform spherically symmetric simulations of core-collapse supernovae with the aid of heavy axion-like particles (ALPs) which interact with photons and redistribute energy within supernova matter. We explore a wide ALP parameter space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-05 Tsurugi Takata , Kanji Mori , Ko Nakamura , Kei Kotake

We study supernova cooling constraints on new light scalars that mix with the Higgs, couple only to nucleons, or couple only to leptons. We show that in all these cases scalars with masses smaller than the plasma frequency in the supernova…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-07 Edward Hardy , Anton Sokolov , Henry Stubbs

In the future several Spallation Source facilities will be available worldwide. Spallation Sources produce large amount of neutrinos from decay-at-rest muons and thus can be well adapted to accommodate state-of-the-art neutrino experiments.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-02 R. Lazauskas , C. Volpe

Extensive data of antiproton scattering cross sections with protons and nuclei have advanced our understanding of hadronic interactions with antinucleons. However, low-energy antineutron scattering data are scarce, thereby limiting our…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-03-18 Alessandra Filippi , Hiroyuki Fujioka , Takashi Higuchi , Luca Venturelli

Two of the key issues in understanding the neutron-to-proton ratio in a core-collapse supernova are discussed. One of these is the behavior of the neutrino-nucleon cross sections as supernova energies. The other issue is the many-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 A. B. Balantekin

The production cross sections of superheavy nuclei with charge numbers $114-117$ are predicted in the $(5-9)n$-evaporation channels of the $^{48}$Ca-induced complete fusion reactions for future experiments. The estimates of synthesis…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 J. Hong , G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko , P. Jachimowicz , M. Kowal

Heavy axion-like particles (ALPs), with masses $m_a \gtrsim 100$ keV, coupled with photons, would be copiously produced in a supernova (SN) core via Primakoff process and photon coalescence. Using a state-of-the-art SN model, we revisit the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-07 Giuseppe Lucente , Pierluca Carenza , Tobias Fischer , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

In the past few decades, observations indicated that an unexplained high production rate of positrons (the strong 511 keV line) exists in the Milky Way center. By using the fact that a large amount of high density gas used to exist near the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-11 Man Ho Chan , Chung Hei Leung

We study MeV-scale electrophilic Feebly Interacting Particles (FIPs), that may be abundantly produced in Supernova (SN) explosions, escape the star and decay into electrons and positrons. This exotic injection of leptons in the Milky Way…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-29 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Shyam Balaji , Pierluca Carenza

Background: Nuclear pasta, emerging due to the competition between the long-range Coulomb force and the short-range strong force, is believed to be present in astrophysical scenarios, such as neutron stars and core-collapse supernovae. Its…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-06 B. Schuetrumpf , G. Martínez-Pinedo , Md Afibuzzaman , H. M. Aktulga

In this article, we study the on-shell production of low-mass vector mediators from neutrino-antineutrino coalescence in the core of proto-neutron stars. Taking into account the radial dependence of the density, energy, and temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-28 David G. Cerdeño , Marina Cermeño , Yasaman Farzan

In this article, we investigate the potential of low-mass lepton pair production in proton-ion collisions at the LHC to constrain nuclear modifications of parton densities. Similarly to prompt photon production, the transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Brandt , M. Klasen , F. König

In this work we consider the role of muons in various URCA processes relevant for neutrino emissions in the core region of neutron stars. The calculations are done for $\beta$--stable nuclear matter with and without muons. We find muons to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 O. Elgaroy , L. Engvik , E. Osnes , F. V. De Blasio , M. Hjorth-Jensen , G. Lazzari

If millicharged particles (MCPs) exist they can be created in the atmosphere when high energy cosmic rays collide with nuclei and could subsequently be detected at neutrino experiments. We extend previous work, which considered MCPs from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-27 Han Wu , Edward Hardy , Ningqiang Song

The formation of a hot and dense core in a core-collapse supernova (SN) can produce massive Beyond Standard Model (BSM) particles. These particles can decay in the stellar envelope, generating positrons either directly or through secondary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-20 Garv Chauhan , Cecilia Lunardini

Fusion of two deuterons of room temperature energy is studied. The nuclei are in vacuum with no connection to any external source (electric or magnetic field, illumination, surrounding matter, traps, etc.) which may accelerate them. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 B. Ivlev