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Search for axionlike dark matter through nuclear spin precession in electric and magnetic fields
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posted on 2023-06-12, 08:46 authored by Christopher Abel, N J Ayres, G Ban, G Bison, K Bodek, V Bondar, M Daum, M Fairbairn, V?V Flambaum, P Geltenbort, K Green, Clark GriffithClark Griffith, Philip Harris, M Musgrave, D Shiers, othersWe report on a search for ultra-low-mass axion-like dark matter by analysing the ratio of the spinprecession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and 199Hg 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 1024 eV 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.
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Sussex Experimental Particle Physics 2015 Consolidated Grant; G1763; STFC-SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL; ST/N000307/1
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Physical Review XISSN
2160-3308Publisher
American Physical SocietyExternal DOI
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