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Ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter candidates introduced by theories beyond the standard model. However, the constraints on the existence of ALPs through existing laboratory experiments are hindered by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-01 Min Jiang , Haowen Su , Antoine Garcon , Xinhua Peng , Dmitry Budker

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can couple to photons in strong magnetic fields, producing characteristic fluctuations in X-ray spectra. Using data from NASA's Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), we analyzed three pulsars: PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Yen-Jhen Liu , Yi Yang

Axions and other light particles appear ubiquitously in physics beyond the Standard Model, with a variety of possible couplings to ordinary matter. Cosmology offers a unique probe of these particles as they can thermalize in the hot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-04 Daniel Green , Yi Guo , Benjamin Wallisch

We propose that a type of molecular rulers, which contains two electron spins with precisely adjustable distance by varying the length of the shape-persistent polymer chains, can be utilized to constrain the axial-vector mediated…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Man Jiao , Xing Rong , Hang Liang , Yi-Fu Cai , Jiangfeng Du

We report on a search for ultra-low-mass axion-like dark matter by analysing the ratio of the spin-precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and $^{199}$Hg atoms for an axion-induced oscillating electric dipole moment of the…

In this paper, we discuss a possibility to improve constraints on spin-dependent short-range interactions in the range of 1 - 200 micrometer significantly. For such interactions, our constraints are without competition at the moment. They…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-03-04 S. Baeßler , V. V. Nesvizhevsky , G. Pignol , K. V. Protasov , A. Yu. Voronin

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that serve as promising candidates for cold dark matter. Portals like inelastic axion scattering and axion propagated force have been employed to search for the upper limit of the ALPs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Dongyi Yang , Chenxi Sun , Jianwei Zhang

The noble-alkali comagnetometer, developed in recent years, has been shown to be a very accurate measuring device of anomalous magnetic-like fields. An ultra-light relic axion-like particle can source an anomalous field that permeates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-04 Itay M. Bloch , Yonit Hochberg , Eric Kuflik , Tomer Volansky

Improved limits for new gravity-like short-range interactions, in which a scattering potential is modeled by the Yukawa-type parametrization, have been obtained by measuring the angular distribution of 6 \AA\ neutrons scattering from atomic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-09 Y. Kamiya , R. Cubitt , L. Porcar , O. Zimmer , G. N. Kim , S. Komamiya

We discuss the possible existence of new long-range forces mediated by spin-1 or spin-0 particles. By adding their effects to those of gravity, they could lead to apparent violations of the Equivalence Principle. While the vector part in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Pierre Fayet

The axion-like particles (ALPs) are very good candidates of the cosmological dark matter, which can exist in many extensions of the standard model (SM). The mass range of the ALPs as the dark matter can extend from a sub-eV scale to almost…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Guo-yuan Huang , Newton Nath

ALPs (Axion Like Particle) beyond the standard model are solutions to several important problems of modern physics. One way to detect these particles is to detect the new interactions they meditate. Many experiments have been performed to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-26 H. Yan , G. A. Sun , S. M. Peng , H. Guo , B. Q. Liu , M. Peng , H. Zheng

Exotic spin-dependent interactions may be generated by exchanging hypothetical bosons that have been proposed to solve some mysteries in physics by theories beyond the standard model of particle physics. The search for such interactions can…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-09-01 Xiaofang Ren , Jianbo Wang , Rui Luo , Lichang Yin , Jihua Ding , Ge Zeng , Pengshun Luo

Precision measurements of the possible coupling of spin to other scalars, vectors and pseudovectors has proven to be a sensitive way to search for new particle physics beyond the standard model. Indeed, in addition to searching for exotic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 Nathan B. Clayburn , Larry R. Hunter

Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated relics that might compose the cosmological dark matter and source anomalous time-dependent magnetic fields. We report on terrestrial bounds from the Noble And Alkali Spin Detectors for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-26 Itay M. Bloch , Roy Shaham , Yonit Hochberg , Eric Kuflik , Tomer Volansky , Or Katz

We discuss the possible existence of new long-range forces mediated by spin-1 or spin-0 particles. They would add their effects to those of gravity, and could lead to apparent violations of the Equivalence Principle. Informations on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Pierre Fayet

We compute the CP-violating (CPV) scalar axion coupling to nucleons in the framework of baryon chiral perturbation theory and we apply the results to the case of left-right symmetry. The correlated constraints with other CPV observables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-03 Stefano Bertolini , Luca Di Luzio , Fabrizio Nesti

The exchange of light pseudoscalar quanta between fermions leads to long-range spin-dependent forces in order g^2, where g is the pseudoscalar-fermion coupling constant. We demonstrate that laboratory bounds on the Yukawa couplings of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ephraim Fischbach , Dennis E. Krause

In these proceedings we use recent LHC heavy-ion data to set a limit on axion-like particles coupling to electromagnetism with mass in the range 10-100 GeV. We recast ATLAS data as per the strategy proposed in 1607.06083, and find results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-22 Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Hou Keong Lou , Tom Melia

Axions provide a solution to the strong CP problem and are excellent dark matter candidates. The presence of additional sources of CP violation, for example to account for the matter/antimatter asymmetry of the universe, can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Vaisakh Plakkot , Wouter Dekens , Jordy de Vries , Sachin Shain