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Strong Supernova 1987A Constraints on Bosons Decaying to Neutrinos

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arxiv 2209.11773 v3 pith:QKX67D7M submitted 2022-09-23 hep-ph astro-ph.COastro-ph.HE

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Majoron-like bosons would emerge from a supernova (SN) core by neutrino coalescence of the form $\nu\nu\to\phi$ and $\bar\nu\bar\nu\to\phi$ with 100 MeV-range energies. Subsequent decays to (anti)neutrinos of all flavors provide a flux component with energies much larger than the usual flux from the "neutrino sphere." The absence of 100 MeV-range events in the Kamiokande-II and Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven signal of SN 1987A implies that less than 1% of the total energy was thus emitted and provides the strongest constraint on the Majoron-neutrino coupling of $g\lesssim 10^{-9}\,{\rm MeV}/m_\phi$ for $100~{\rm eV}\lesssim m_\phi\lesssim 100~{\rm MeV}$. It is straightforward to extend our new argument to other hypothetical feebly interacting particles.

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