My paper with Tom O'Shea, Anne Davis, Maurizio Giannotti, Luca Visinelli, and Julia Vogel, where we revisited the issue of production of Solar chameleons (see this earlier news item), has now officially been published in PRD! The full bibliographic coordinates for the paper are Phys. Rev. D 110 (2024) 063027. Here is the link to the paper (which is published Open Access).
Solar chameleons paper accepted in PRD!
My paper with Tom O'Shea, Anne Davis, Maurizio Giannotti, Luca Visinelli, and Julia Vogel, where we revisited the issue of production of Solar chameleons (see this earlier news item), has been accepted for publication in PRD! Minor revisions compared to the previous version include a rough estimate of how much the CAST bound on the chameleon-photon coupling changes accounting for the production channels we studied. You can read the preprint version of the paper on arXiv: 2406.01691.
Solar chameleons revisited: 2024 edition
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.
