We calculate the additional force due to two-axion exchange acting in a sphere-disc geometry, used in experiments on measuring the gradient of the Casimir force. With this result, stronger constraints on the pseudoscalar coupling constants of an axion and axion-like particles to a proton and a neutron are obtained over the wide range of axion masses from 0.03mV to 1eV. Among the three experiments with Au-Au, Au-Ni and Ni-Ni boundary surfaces performed by means of dynamic atomic force microscope, major improving is achieved for the experiment with Au-Au test bodies. Here, the constraints obtained are stronger up to a factor of 170, as compared to the previously known ones. The largest strengthening holds for the axion mass 0.3eV.
@article{arxiv.1402.2528,
title = {Stronger constraints on axion from measuring the Casimir interaction by means of dynamic atomic force microscope},
author = {V. B. Bezerra and G. L. Klimchitskaya and V. M. Mostepanenko and C. Romero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.2528},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
18 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Several corrections and additions have been made in accordance to the version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D