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arxiv 1708.06367 v1 pith:FK6E3E5U submitted 2017-08-21 hep-ph astro-ph.COnucl-exnucl-thphysics.atom-ph

Search for axion-like dark matter through nuclear spin precession in electric and magnetic fields

classification hep-ph astro-ph.COnucl-exnucl-thphysics.atom-ph
keywords darkmatteraxionaxion-likeconstraintscouplingelectriclaboratory
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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 neutron and an axion-wind spin-precession effect. No signal consistent with dark matter is observed for the axion mass range $10^{-24}~\textrm{eV} \le m_a \le 10^{-17}~\textrm{eV}$. Our null result sets the first laboratory constraints on the coupling of axion dark matter to gluons, which improve on astrophysical limits by up to 3 orders of magnitude, and also improves on previous laboratory constraints on the axion coupling to nucleons by up to a factor of 40.

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