Neutron stars as photon double-lenses: Constraining resonant conversion into ALPs

Axion-photon conversion is a prime mechanism to detect axion-like particles that share a coupling to the photon. We point out that in the vicinity of neutron stars with strong magnetic fields, magnetars, the effective photon mass receives comparable but opposite contributions from free electrons and...

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Autors principals: Kyrylo Bondarenko, Alexey Boyarsky, Josef Pradler, Anastasia Sokolenko
Format: Article
Idioma:English
Publicat: Elsevier 2023-11-01
Col·lecció:Physics Letters B
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Accés en línia:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269323005725