Improved Limits on Spin-Mass Interactions

Abstract

Very light particles with CP-violating couplings to ordinary matter, such as axions or axion-like particles, can mediate long-range forces between polarized and unpolarized fermions. We describe a new experimental search for such forces between unpolarized nucleons in two 250 kg Pb weights and polarized neutrons and electrons in a ${}^3$He-K co-magnetometer located about 15 cm away. We place improved constrains on the products of scalar and pseudoscalar coupling constants, $g_p^n{g}_s^N<4.2\times 10^{-30}$ and $g_p^e{g}_s^N<1.7\times 10^{-30}$ (95% CL) for axion-like particle masses less than $10^{-6}$ eV, which represents an order of magnitude improvement over the best previous neutron laboratory limit.

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• An Improved Experimental Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron
• New CAST Limit on the Axion-Photon Interaction
• Particle Physics Implications of a Recent Test of the Gravitational Inverse Square Law
• New limit on Lorentz and CPT-violating neutron spin interactions
• Spin-Dependent Macroscopic Forces from New Particle Exchange
• Resonant detection of axion mediated forces with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• A low-noise ferrite magnetic shield
• Preferred-Frame and CP-Violation Tests with Polarized Electrons
• Limits on a CP-violating scalar axion-nucleon interaction
• Improved constraints on monopole-dipole interaction mediated by pseudo-scalar bosons

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