Probing muonic forces with neutron star binaries

Abstract

We show that gravitational wave emission from neutron star binaries can be used to discover any generic long-ranged muonic force due to the large inevitable abundance of muons inside neutron stars. As a minimal consistent example, we focus on a gauged U(1)${}_{L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }}$ symmetry. In pulsar binaries, such U(1)${}_{L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }}$ vectors induce an anomalously fast decay of the orbital period through the emission of dipole radiation. We study a range of different pulsar binaries, finding the most powerful constraints for vector masses below $\mathcal{O}(10^{-18}\mathrm{eV})$. For merging binaries the presence of muons in neutron stars can result in dipole radiation as well as a modification of the chirp mass during the inspiral phase. We make projections for a prospective search using both the GW170817 and S190814bv events and find that current data can discover light vectors with masses below $\mathcal{O}(10^{-10}\mathrm{eV})$. In both cases, the limits attainable with neutron stars reach gauge coupling $g^{\prime }\lesssim 10^{-20}$, which are many orders of magnitude stronger than previous constraints. We also show projections for next generation experiments, such as Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer.

arXiv commentv2: 12 pages, 5 figures. Discussion lengthened and typos corrected. Conclusions unchanged. Matches journal version

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