Search for axionlike dark matter through nuclear spin precession in electric and magnetic fields
- Abel, Christopher
- Ayres, Nicholas John
- Ban, Giles
- Bison, Georg
- Bodek, Kazimierz
- Bondar, Vira
- Daum, Manfred
- Fairbairn, Malcom
- Flambaum, Victor V.
- Geltenbort, Peter
- Green, K.
- Griffith, William C.
- Van Der Grinten, Maurits
- Grujić, Zoran D.
- Harris, P.G.
- Hild, N.
- Iaydjiev, P.
- Ivanov, Sergey N.
- Kasprzak, Małgorzata
- Kermaïdic, Y.
- Kirch, Klaus Stefan
- Koch, Hans C.
- Komposch, S.
- Koß, Peter A.
- Kozela, Adam
- Krempel, Jochen
- Stadnik, Yevgeny V.
- Lauss, Bernhard
- Lefort, T.
- Lemière, Yves
- Marsh, David J.E.
- Thyagarthi Mohanmurthy, Prajwal
- Mtchedlishvili, Aliko
- Musgrave, M.
- Piegsa, Florian M.
- Pignol, Guillaume
- Rawlik, Michal
- Rebreyend, Dominique
- Ries, Dieter
- Roccia, Stéphanie
- Rozpȩdzik, Dagmara
- Schmidt-Wellenburg, P.
- Severijns, Nathal
- Shiers, D.
- Weis, Antoine
- Wursten, Elisabeth
- Zejma, Jacek
- Zsigmond, Géza
DOIAbstract
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 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 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.ISSN:2160-330
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