New stellar constraints on dark photons

Abstract

We consider the stellar production of vector states V within the minimal model of "dark photons". We show that when the Stuckelberg mass of the dark vector becomes smaller than plasma frequency, the emission rate is dominated by the production of the longitudinal modes of V, and scales as κ^2 m_V^2, where κand m_V are the mixing angle with the photon and the mass of the dark state. This is in contrast with earlier erroneous claims in the literature that the emission rate decouples as the forth power of the mass. We derive ensuing constraints on the (κ, m_V) parameter space by calculating the cooling rates for the Sun and red giant stars. We find that stellar bounds for m_V < 10 eV are significantly strengthened, to the extent that all current "light-shining-through-wall" experiments find themselves within deeply excluded regions.

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