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PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 725, Issue 4-5, Pages 190-195Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.07.008
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- Government of Canada through NSERC
- Province of Ontario through MEDT
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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 kappa(2)m(V)(2), where kappa and m(V) are the mixing angle with the photon and the mass of the dark state. This is in contrast with widespread assertions in the literature that the emission rate decouples as the forth power of the mass. We derive ensuing constraints on the (kappa, m(V)) parameter space by calculating the cooling rates for the Sun and horizontal branch 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. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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