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Exploring the robustness of stellar cooling constraints on light particles

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arxiv 2006.15112 v2 pith:ZVYWNPPG submitted 2020-06-26 hep-ph

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Stellar cooling arguments place strict restrictions on a wide variety of models of new physics. In this paper, we argue that mechanisms to evade these constraints are restricted by thermodynamic arguments, then present a minimal model extension that allows new particles to evade all stellar constraints. In doing this, we demonstrate that interesting parameter space can be reopened, using the EDGES signal and Xenon1T excess as examples. This mechanism highlights the importance of laboratory experiments in a well-controlled environment to search for new physics, complementary to astrophysical searches.

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