Experimental constraint on axion-like particle coupling over seven orders of magnitude in mass

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 axion-like 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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