Bounds on Very Weakly Interacting Sub-eV Particles (WISPs) from Cosmology and Astrophysics
arXiv:0810.3200
Abstract
Many weakly interacting sub-electronVolt particles (WISPs) are easily accommodated in extensions of the standard model. Generally the strongest bounds on their existence come from stellar evolution and cosmology, where to the best of our knowledge observations seem to agree with the standard budget of particles. In this talk I review the most demanding constraints for axions and axion-like-particles, hidden photons and mini-charged particles.
6 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of 4th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs - Training Workshop, Hamburg, Germany, 18-21 Jun 2008
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