Search for Axionlike Dark Matter through Nuclear Spin Precession in Electric and Magnetic Fields

Abel, C.; Ayres, N.J.; Ban, G.; Bison, G.; Bodek, K.; Bondar, V.; Daum, M.; Fairbairn, M.; Flambaum, V.V.; Geltenbort, P.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041034

Search for Axionlike Dark Matter through Nuclear Spin Precession in Electric and Magnetic Fields

Aug 21, 2017

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Phys.Rev.X 7 (2017) 4, 041034

Published: Nov 14, 2017

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1708.06367 [hep-ph]

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10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041034

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We report on a search for ultralow-mass axionlike dark matter by analyzing the ratio of the spin-precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and Hg199 atoms for an axion-induced oscillating electric dipole moment of the neutron and an axion-wind spin-precession effect. No signal consistent with dark matter is observed for the axion mass range 10-24≤ma≤10-17 eV. Our null result sets the first laboratory constraints on the coupling of axion dark matter to gluons, which improve on astrophysical limits by up to 3 orders of magnitude, and also improves on previous laboratory constraints on the axion coupling to nucleons by up to a factor of 40.

axion: coupling
axion: dark matter
axion: mass
n: electric moment
spin: precession
nucleus: spin
magnetic field
electric field
oscillation
gluon: coupling

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