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Astrophysical bounds on the masses of axions and Higgs particles
Abstract
Lower bounds on the mass of a light scalar (Higgs) or pseudoscalar (axion) particle are found in three ways: (1) by requiring that their effect on primordial nucleosynthesis not yield a deuterium abundance outside present experimental limits, (2) by requiring that the photons from their decay thermalize and not distort the microwave background, and (3) by requiring that their emission from helium-burning stars (red giants) not disrupt stellar evolution. The best bound is from (3); it requires the axion or Higgs-particle mass to be greater than about 0.2 MeV.
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- Authors
- Dicus, D. A., Kolb, E. W., Teplitz, V. L., & Wagoner, R. V.
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1978-09-15
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1829-1834
- ISSN
- 0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
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- W2159237623
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- 253
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- 2.76
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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