I’m extremely happy to see our latest work led by the brilliant Tomás (Tom) O'Shea, together with Anne Davis, my fellow countryman (we are both from Terracina) Maurizio Giannotti, Luca Visinelli, and Julia Vogel, out on arXiv! This was a technical tour-de-force led by Tom where we revisited the issue of production of chameleons (which could be relevant to the dark energy problem) in the Sun, whose state-of-the-art dated back to 2012, and partially motivated by the earlier work of myself, Luca, and Anne. The resulting spectrum includes a number of previously overlooked contributions which turn out to make an important difference, and our results can be extremely relevant for future experiments such as IAXO. While in our work we only included the contribution from transverse photons, the study of longitudinal plasmons is certainly relevant and in progress. You can read our results in the preprint we just posted on arXiv: 2406.01691.
