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Area of Science:

  • Particle Physics
  • Cosmology
  • Astrophysics

Background:

  • Theories beyond the Standard Model propose ultralight bosons as dark matter candidates.
  • Precision measurements offer a promising avenue for detecting these hypothetical particles.
  • Detecting these bosons requires measuring minute energy shifts in standard-model particles.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a highly sensitive magnetometer for detecting ultralight bosons.
  • To search for anomalous Z' boson-mediated spin-spin interactions.
  • To establish new constraints on hypothetical particle couplings.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a noble-gas nuclear magnetic resonance magnetometer.
  • Achieving an energy resolution of approximately 10^-23 eV.
  • Measuring energy shifts in nuclear spins induced by Z' bosons.

Main Results:

  • Set the most stringent constraints on anomalous neutron-neutron and neutron-proton spin couplings for Z' bosons.
  • Constraints surpass previous limits by up to 17 orders of magnitude.
  • Established new, stringent limits on neutron-proton spin couplings mediated by paraphotons, exceeding prior constraints by at least 25 orders of magnitude.

Conclusions:

  • The developed magnetometer technique provides a powerful tool for searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model.
  • The null results significantly advance the search for ultralight bosons and anomalous spin-spin interactions.
  • This method opens new avenues for exploring axion-like particles and other exotic phenomena.