Experimental Constraint on an Exotic Spin- and Velocity-Dependent Interaction in the Sub-meV Range of Axion Mass with a Spin-Exchange Relaxation-Free Magnetometer
Abstract
Here, we conducted a search for an exotic spin- and velocity-dependent interaction for polarized electrons with an experimental approach based on a high-sensitivity spin-exchange relaxation-free (SERF) magnetometer, which serves as both a source of polarized electrons and a magnetic-field sensor. The experiment aims to sensitively detect magnetic-fieldlike effects from the exotic interaction between the polarized electrons in a SERF vapor cell and unpolarized nucleons of a closely located solid-state mass. We report experimental results on the interaction with 82 h of data averaging, which sets an experimental limit on the coupling strength around 10–19 for the axion mass ma ≲ 10–3 eV, within the important axion window.
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1471361
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1467934
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-18-22161
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396; 20180129ER
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 121; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; Atomic and Nuclear Physics
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Kim, Young Jin, Chu, Ping -Han, and Savukov, Igor Mykhaylovich. Experimental Constraint on an Exotic Spin- and Velocity-Dependent Interaction in the Sub-meV Range of Axion Mass with a Spin-Exchange Relaxation-Free Magnetometer. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.091802.
Kim, Young Jin, Chu, Ping -Han, & Savukov, Igor Mykhaylovich. Experimental Constraint on an Exotic Spin- and Velocity-Dependent Interaction in the Sub-meV Range of Axion Mass with a Spin-Exchange Relaxation-Free Magnetometer. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.091802
Kim, Young Jin, Chu, Ping -Han, and Savukov, Igor Mykhaylovich. Fri .
"Experimental Constraint on an Exotic Spin- and Velocity-Dependent Interaction in the Sub-meV Range of Axion Mass with a Spin-Exchange Relaxation-Free Magnetometer". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.091802. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1471361.
@article{osti_1471361,
title = {Experimental Constraint on an Exotic Spin- and Velocity-Dependent Interaction in the Sub-meV Range of Axion Mass with a Spin-Exchange Relaxation-Free Magnetometer},
author = {Kim, Young Jin and Chu, Ping -Han and Savukov, Igor Mykhaylovich},
abstractNote = {Here, we conducted a search for an exotic spin- and velocity-dependent interaction for polarized electrons with an experimental approach based on a high-sensitivity spin-exchange relaxation-free (SERF) magnetometer, which serves as both a source of polarized electrons and a magnetic-field sensor. The experiment aims to sensitively detect magnetic-fieldlike effects from the exotic interaction between the polarized electrons in a SERF vapor cell and unpolarized nucleons of a closely located solid-state mass. We report experimental results on the interaction with 82 h of data averaging, which sets an experimental limit on the coupling strength around 10–19 for the axion mass ma ≲ 10–3 eV, within the important axion window.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.091802},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 9,
volume = 121,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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