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Robust constraints on feebly interacting particles using XMM-Newton

Pedro De la Torre Luque1,*, Shyam Balaji2,3,†, and Pierluca Carenza1,‡

  • 1The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm 106 91, Sweden
  • 2Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE), UMR 7589 CNRS and Sorbonne Université, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252, Paris, France
  • 3Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095 CNRS and Sorbonne Université, 98 bis boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France

  • *pedro.delatorreluque@fysik.su.se
  • †sbalaji@lpthe.jussieu.fr
  • ‡pierluca.carenza@fysik.su.se
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Phys. Rev. D 109, L101305 – Published 17 May, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L101305

Abstract

During galactic supernova (SN) explosions, a large amount of feebly interacting particles (FIPs) may be produced. In this work we analyze electrophilic FIPs with masses in the MeV-range that escape from SN and decay into electron-positron pairs, causing an exotic leptonic injection. This contribution adds up to known components, leading to an unexpected excess of x-ray fluxes generated by inverse-Compton scattering of the injected particles on low-energy photon backgrounds. For the first time in the context of FIPs, we use XMM-Newton x-ray measurements to obtain the strongest and most robust bounds on electrophilic FIPs produced by SN in our Galaxy.

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Phys. Rev. D 109, L101305– Published 17 May, 2024
  • Received 4 August 2023
  • Accepted 22 April 2024
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