ASTROPHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS ON MINICHARGED PARTICLES

被引:59
作者
MOHAPATRA, RN
ROTHSTEIN, IZ
机构
[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)91907-S
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
In a large class of popular gauge models, electric charge quantization among the observed quarks and leptons has been shown to follow from anomaly constraints and the requirement of neutrinos being Majorana particles. Such theories allow new particles with arbitrary charges whose presence can lead to a variety of physical effects. In this paper, we show that observations from SN1987A rule out charges Qε{lunate} and masses mε{lunate} of these mini-charged particles in the range 10-9≤Q≤10-7 for mε{lunate}≤10MeV. © 1990.
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页码:593 / 600
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