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Constraining New Physics Models with Isotope Shift Spectroscopy

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-07-19 v2 Atomic Physics

Abstract

Isotope shifts of transition frequencies in atoms constrain generic long- and intermediate-range interactions. We focus on new physics scenarios that can be most strongly constrained by King Linearity Violation such as models with B-L vector bosons, Higgs portal and chameleon. With the anticipated precision, King Linearity Violation has the potential to set the strongest laboratory bounds on these models in some regions of parameter space. Furthermore, we show that this method can probe the couplings relevant for the protophobic interpretation of the recently reported Be anomaly. We extend the formalism to include an arbitrary number of transitions and isotope pairs and fit the new physics coupling to the currently available isotope shift measurements.

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@article{arxiv.1602.04822,
  title  = {Constraining New Physics Models with Isotope Shift Spectroscopy},
  author = {Claudia Frugiuele and Elina Fuchs and Gilad Perez and Matthias Schlaffer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04822},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

8 pages + references, 3 figures; v2: completely revised version focusing on light new bosons

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