- Tytuł:
- Search for ultralight axion dark matter in a side-band analysis of a $^{199}$Hg free-spin precession signal
- Autorzy:
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Lefort, T.
Piegsa, F. M.
Wursten, E.
Daum, M.
Dechenaux, B.
Rawlik, M.
Kirch, K.
Severijns, N.
Rozpędzik, Dagmara
Pignol, Guillaume
Schmidt-Wellenburg, Philipp
Flaux, P.
Ban, G.
Harris, P. G.
Kermaidic, Y.
Emmenegger, S.
Zejma, Jacek
Bondar, V.
Bison, G.
Roccia, Stephanie
Ries, D.
Komposch, S.
Thorne, J. A.
Ayres, N. J.
Griffith, W. C.
MohanMurthy, Prajwal
Naviliat Cuncic, Oscar
Bodek, Kazimierz
Lauss, B.
Abel, C.
Koss, P. A.
Stadnik, Y. V.
Zsigmond, Geza
Pais, D.
Crawford, C. B.
Chanel, E.
Weis, A.
Krempel, J. - Opis:
- Ultra-low-mass axions are a viable dark matter candidate and may form a coherently oscillating classical field. Nuclear spins in experiments on Earth might couple to this oscillating axion dark-matter field, when propagating on Earth's trajectory through our Galaxy. This spin coupling resembles an oscillating pseudo-magnetic field which modulates the spin precession of nuclear spins. Here we report on the null result of a demonstration experiment searching for a frequency modulation of the free spin-precession signal of $^{199}$Hg in a 1 $\mu$T magnetic field. Our search covers the axion mass range 10$^{-16}$ eV $\lesssim$ m$_{a} \lesssim$ 10$^{-13}$ eV and achieves a peak sensitivity to the axion-nucleon coupling of g$_{aNN} \approx$ 3.5 $\times$ 10$^{-6}$ GeV$^{-1}$.
- Dostawca treści:
- Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
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