Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

On the resonant production of axions in a magnetar magnetosphere

  • Fields, Particles, and Nuclei
  • Published:
JETP Letters Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The effect of a magnetized plasma on the resonant photoproduction of axions on the electromagnetic multipole components of the medium, i → f + a, has been considered. It has been shown that the axion emissivity in the resonance region, owing to various reactions involving particles of the medium, is certainly expressed in terms of the emissivity of the photon → axion transition. The number of axions produced by the equilibrium cosmic microwave background radiation in the magnetar magnetosphere has been determined. It has been shown that the resonant mechanism under consideration is inefficient for the production of cold dark mass.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. R. D. Peccei and H. R. Quinn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 38, 1440 (1977); Phys. Rev. D 16, 1791 (1977).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. G. G. Raffelt, Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics (Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996).

    Google Scholar 

  3. R. C. Duncan and C. Thompson, Astrophys. J. 392, L9 (1992).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. C. Thompson and R. C. Duncan, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 275, 255 (1995).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. R. C. Duncan and C. Thompson, Astrophys. J. 473, 322 (1996).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. C. Thompson, M. Lyutikov, and S. R. Kulkarni, Astrophys. J. 574, 332 (2002).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. P. Goldreich and W. H. Julian, Astrophys. J. 157, 869 (1969).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. V. V. Skobelev, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 132, 1121 (2007) [JETP 105, 982 (2007)].

    Google Scholar 

  9. L. A. Vassilevskaya, N. V. Mikheev, and O. S. Ovchinnikov, Yad. Fiz. 62, 1662 (1999) [Phys. At. Nucl. 62, 1556 (1999)].

    Google Scholar 

  10. N. V. Mikheev and E. N. Narynskaya, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 21, 433 (2006).

    Article  MATH  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. H. A. Weldon, Phys. Rev. D 28, 2007 (1983).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  12. N. V. Mikheev, G. Raffelt, and L. A. Vassilevskaya, Phys. Rev. D 58, 055008 (1998).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, 150000, Russia

    N. V. Mikheev, D. A. Rumyantsev & Yu. E. Shkol’nikova

Authors
  1. N. V. Mikheev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. D. A. Rumyantsev
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Yu. E. Shkol’nikova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to D. A. Rumyantsev.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © N.V. Mikheev, D.A. Rumyantsev, Yu.E. Shkol’nikova, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 90, No. 9, pp. 668–671.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Mikheev, N.V., Rumyantsev, D.A. & Shkol’nikova, Y.E. On the resonant production of axions in a magnetar magnetosphere. Jetp Lett. 90, 604–607 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364009210036

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364009210036

Keywords

Search

Navigation