We report a constraint on the cosmological variation of the proton g-factor, gp. By comparing the measured redshifts between \mbox{H\,{\sc i}} 21 cm and OH 18 cm lines observed with the newly commissioned Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) toward PKS 1413+135 at z = 0.24671, we obtain Δgp/gp=(−4.3±2.5)×10−5, which is more than two orders of magnitude more sensitive than previous constraints. In addition, we obtain sensitive constraints of Δ(μα2)/(μα2)=(2.0±1.2)×10−5 and Δ(μα2gp0.64)/(μα2gp0.64)=(−4.7±1.9)×10−6.
@article{arxiv.2511.17998,
title = {A stringent constraint on the fractional change of proton g-factor},
author = {Renzhi Su and Stephen J. Curran and Jeremy Darling and Minfeng Gu and J. N. H. S. Aditya and Ningyu Tang and Di Li and Zheng Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.17998},
year = {2026}
}
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2 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication on SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy