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A closer look at the pp-chain reaction in the Sun: constraining the coupling of light mediators to protons

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IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/07/042

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solar and atmospheric neutrinos; solar physics

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  1. Villum Foundation [13164]
  2. NSF at UCSD [PHY-1914242]
  3. NSF N3AS Physics Frontier Center, NSF [PHY-2020275]
  4. Heising-Simons Foundation [2017-228]

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The pp-chain of nuclear reactions is the primary route for energy production in the Sun, in which two protons are converted into a deuterium nucleus with the emission of a positron and electron neutrino. This reaction is slow due to weak interaction, involving quantum tunneling through the Coulomb barrier. By comparing calculations with and without non-standard mediators, we explore the potential impact on the rate of this reaction in the Sun and find constraints on non-standard parameters.
The pp-chain of nuclear reactions is the primary route for energy production in the Sun. The first step in that reaction sequence converts two protons to a deuterium nucleus with the emission of a positron and electron neutrino. This reaction is extremely slow because it is a weak interaction, and significantly, it involves quantum tunneling through the Coulomb barrier. Though the reaction rate can be calculated with high confidence in the Standard Model, it has not been measured at solar energies. If there exist interactions that are engendered by non-standard mediators then the rate of this reaction in the Sun could be altered. We probe such non-standard interactions by comparing calculations of solar evolution to the current solar system age in the presence and absence of the non-standard mediators. These reveal ranges of non-standard mediator mass and couplings that are inconsistent with measured properties of the Sun, including solar neutrino results. Our constraints on these non-standard parameters, in many cases overlapping those derived via other considerations, could be extended further with better confidence in the value of the metalicity of the Sun and the solar neutrino CNO flux. Intriguingly, our work reveals a degeneracy between the solar metalicity and the presence of the invoked non-standard mediators.

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