Minicharged particles from the Sun: a cutting-edge bound
N. Vinyoles (Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, S/N, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain); H. Vogel (Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute), Föhringer Ring 6, D-80805 München, Germany)
We study the impact on the Sun of an exotic energy-loss channel caused by plasmon decay into fermionic minicharged particles with charge ϵ e and mass mf. We compare solar models with this extra emission to helioseismological and neutrino data, obtaining a bound ϵ < 2.2 Ã 10â14 (95% CL) for mf â²Â  25 eV. Our result is comparable to previous limits from the cooling of globular cluster stars, while at the same time it is better understood and takes theoretical and observational errors into account.