NASDUCK: New Constraints on Axion-like Dark Matter from Floquet Quantum Detector

Abstract

We report on the first results of the Noble and Alkali Spin Detectors for Ultralight Coherent darK matter (NASDUCK) collaboration. We search for the interactions of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with atomic spins using an earth-based precision quantum detector as it traverses through the galactic dark matter halo. The detector is composed of spin-polarized xenon gas which can coherently interact with a background ALP dark matter field and an in-situ rubidium Floquet optical-magnetometer. Conducting a five months-long search, we derive new constraints on ALP-proton and ALP-neutron interactions in the $4\times 10^{-15}-4\times 10^{-12}eV/{\mathrm{c}}^2$ mass range. Our limits on the ALP-proton (ALP-neutron) couplings improve upon previous terrestrial bounds by up to 3 orders of magnitude for masses above $4\times 10^{-14}eV/{\mathrm{c}}^2$ ($4\times 10^{-13}eV/{\mathrm{c}}^2$). Moreover, barring the uncertain supernova constraints, the ALP-proton bound improves on all existing terrestrial and astrophysical limits, partially closing the unexplored region for couplings in the range $10^{-6}\mathrm{Ge}{\mathrm{V}}^{-1}$ to $2\times 10^{-5}\mathrm{Ge}{\mathrm{V}}^{-1}$. Finally, we also cast bounds on pseudo-scalar dark matter models in which dark matter is quadratically-coupled to the nucleons.

I.M.B. and G.R. contributed equally

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