Testing Atom and Neutron Neutrality with Atom Interferometry
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Theory
Atomic Physics
Abstract
We propose an atom-interferometry experiment based on the scalar Aharonov-Bohm effect which detects an atom charge at the 10^{-28}e level, and improves the current laboratory limits by 8 orders of magnitude. This setup independently probes neutron charges down to 10^{-28}e, 7 orders of magnitude below current bounds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.4636,
title = {Testing Atom and Neutron Neutrality with Atom Interferometry},
author = {Asimina Arvanitaki and Savas Dimopoulos and Andrew A. Geraci and Jason Hogan and Mark Kasevich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.4636},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, to be submitted for publication in PRL