Electronic structure of ytterbium monohydroxide molecule to search for axionlike particles
Atomic Physics
2021-02-15 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Chemical Physics
Abstract
Recently the YbOH molecule has been suggested as a candidate to search for the electron electric dipole moment (eEDM) which violates spatial parity (P) and time-reversal (T) symmetries [I. Kozyryev and N. R. Hutzler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 133002 (2017)]. In the present paper we show that the same system can be used to measure coupling constants of the interaction of electrons and nucleus with axionlike particles. The electron-nucleus interaction produced by the axion exchange induces T,P-violating a EDM of the whole molecular system. We express the corresponding T,P-violating energy shift produced by this effect in terms of the axion mass and product of the axion-nucleus and axion-electron coupling constants.
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@article{arxiv.2010.11669,
title = {Electronic structure of ytterbium monohydroxide molecule to search for axionlike particles},
author = {D. E. Maison and V. V. Flambaum and N. R. Hutzler and L. V. Skripnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11669},
year = {2021}
}