Search for Axionlike-Particle-Induced Prompt $\ensuremath{\gamma}$-Ray Emission from Extragalactic Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Search for Axionlike-Particle-Induced Prompt $γ$ -Ray Emission from Extragalactic Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Manuel Meyer and Tanja Petrushevska (Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 231101 – Published 11 June 2020; Erratum Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 119901 (2020)

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During a core-collapse supernova (SN), axionlike particles (ALPs) could be produced through the Primakoff process and subsequently convert into $γ$ rays in the magnetic field of the Milky Way. We do not find evidence for such a $γ$ -ray burst in observations of extragalactic SNe with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The SN explosion times are estimated from optical light curves and we find a probability of about $\sim 90 %$ that the LAT observed at least one SN at the time of the core collapse. Under the assumption that at least one SN was contained within the LAT field of view, we exclude photon-ALP couplings $≳ 2.6 \times 10^{- 12} {GeV}^{- 1}$ for ALP masses $m_{a} ≲ 3 \times 10^{- 10} eV$ , improving previous limits from SN1987A by a factor of 2.

Received 18 February 2020
Revised 22 April 2020
Accepted 15 May 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.231101

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gamma ray astronomy Novae & supernovae

Axions

Gravitation, Cosmology & AstrophysicsParticles & Fields

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Erratum: Search for Axionlike-Particle-Induced Prompt $γ$ -Ray Emission from Extragalactic Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Fermi Large Area Telescope [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 231101 (2020)]

Manuel Meyer and Tanja Petrushevska (Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 119901 (2020)

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Manuel Meyer ^* (Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany and W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA

Tanja Petrushevska ^†

Centre for Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 11c, 5270 Ajdovščina, Slovenia

^*manuel.e.meyer@fau.de
^†tanja.petrushevska@ung.si

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Search for Axionlike-Particle-Induced Prompt γ-Ray Emission from Extragalactic Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Manuel Meyer and Tanja Petrushevska (Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 231101 – Published 11 June 2020; Erratum Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 119901 (2020)

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Erratum: Search for Axionlike-Particle-Induced Prompt γ-Ray Emission from Extragalactic Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Fermi Large Area Telescope [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 231101 (2020)]

Manuel Meyer and Tanja Petrushevska (Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

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Search for Axionlike-Particle-Induced Prompt $γ$ -Ray Emission from Extragalactic Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Erratum: Search for Axionlike-Particle-Induced Prompt $γ$ -Ray Emission from Extragalactic Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Fermi Large Area Telescope [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 231101 (2020)]