Abel, C, Ayres, N J, Griffith, W C, Harris, P G, Musgrave, M, Shiers, D and et al., (2017) Search for axion-like dark matter through nuclear spin precession in electric and magnetic fields. Physical Review X, 7 (4). ISSN 2160-3308

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Abstract

We 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.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User:	Billy Wichaidit
Date Deposited:	07 Nov 2017 15:53
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2017 15:10
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/71045

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