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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 102, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.023005
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- National Science Foundation [PHY1607611]
- European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [637506]
- DOE [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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 O(10(-18) 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 O(10(-10) eV). In both cases, the limits attainable with neutron stars reach gauge coupling g' less than or similar to 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.
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