PLASMON EFFECTS IN LIGHT SCALAR AND PSEUDO-SCALAR EMISSION FROM A SUPERNOVA

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ALTHERR, T
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[1] Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Helsinki, SF-00170 Helsinki
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10.1016/0003-4916(91)90062-D
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The emission of light scalars and pseudo-scalars (axion-like particles) coupled to the chromo/electric field from a QCD QED plasma at high temperature and very high density is studied in detail. The calculation is then applied to the SN1987A event for which new bounds on the Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking scale fa are derived, fa ≳ 3 × 109 GeV in presence of a quark-gluon core and fa ≳ 107 GeV, which is the same bound as the one obtained from red giant stars, by considering axion emission from the electron gas. © 1991.
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