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Short-range spin-dependent interactions of electrons: a probe for exotic pseudo-Goldstone bosons

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-11-11 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

We used a torsion pendulum and rotating attractor with 20-pole electron-spin distributions to probe dipole-dipole interactions mediated by exotic pseudo-Goldstone bosons with mb500  μm_{\rm b}\leq 500 \; \mueV and coupling strengths up to 14 orders of magnitude weaker than electromagnetism. This corresponds to symmetry-breaking scales F70F \leq 70 TeV, the highest reached in any laboratory experiment. We used an attractor with a 20-pole unpolarized mass distribution to improve laboratory bounds on CPCP-violating monopole-dipole interactions with 1.5μ1.5\:\mueV<mb<400μ<m_{\rm b}<400\:\mueV by a factor of up to 1000.

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@article{arxiv.1508.02463,
  title  = {Short-range spin-dependent interactions of electrons: a probe for exotic pseudo-Goldstone bosons},
  author = {W. A. Terrano and E. G. Adelberger and J. G. Lee and B. R. Heckel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02463},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures submitted to PRL