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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Experimental Constraint on Axionlike Particles over Seven Orders of Magnitude in Mass
Tanya S Roussy1,2, Daniel A Palken1,2, William B Cairncross1,2
1JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
Abstract:
We use our recent electric dipole moment (EDM) measurement data to constrain the possibility that the HfF^{+} EDM oscillates in time due to interactions with candidate dark matter axionlike particles (ALPs). We employ a Bayesian analysis method which accounts for both the look-elsewhere effect and the uncertainties associated with stochastic density fluctuations in the ALP field. We find no evidence of an oscillating EDM over a range spanning from 27 nHz to 400 mHz, and we use this result to constrain the ALP-gluon coupling over the mass range 10^{-22}-10^{-15} eV. This is the first laboratory constraint on the ALP-gluon coupling in the 10^{-17}-10^{-15} eV range, and the first laboratory constraint to properly account for the stochastic nature of the ALP field.
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