A Ramsey Neutron-Beam Experiment to Search for Ultralight Axion Dark Matter at the ESS

Abstract

High-intensity neutron beams, such as those available at the European Spallation Source (ESS), provide new opportunities for fundamental discoveries. Here we discuss a novel Ramsey neutron-beam experiment to search for ultralight axion dark matter through its coupling to neutron spins, which would cause the neutron spins to rotate about the velocity of the neutrons relative to the dark matter halo. We estimate that experiments at the HIBEAM beamline at the ESS can improve the sensitivity to the axion-neutron coupling compared to the current best laboratory limits by up to $2-3$ orders of magnitude over the axion mass range $10^{-22}\text{eV}-10^{-16}$ eV.

arXiv comment8 pages, 3 figures

References in corpus (40)

• The Low-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics
• WISPy Cold Dark Matter
• WIMP dark matter candidates and searches - current status and future prospects
• Strong bound on canonical ultra-light axion dark matter from the Lyman-alpha forest
• Limits on new long range nuclear spin-dependent forces set with a K-3He co-magnetometer
• Constraining the mass of light bosonic dark matter using SDSS Lyman-$\alpha$ forest
• Lyman-alpha Constraints on Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter: Implications for the Early and Late Universe
• Improved axion emissivity from a supernova via nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung
• Galactic Rotation Curves vs. Ultra-Light Dark Matter: Implications of the Soliton -- Host Halo Relation
• Axion-induced effects in atoms, molecules and nuclei: Parity nonconservation, anapole moments, electric dipole moments, and spin-gravity and spin-axion momentum couplings
• Neutron scattering and extra short range interactions
• Search for axion-like dark matter through nuclear spin precession in electric and magnetic fields
• Is there a supernova bound on axions?
• Search for axionlike dark matter with a liquid-state nuclear spin comagnetometer
• Detecting dark matter waves with precision measurement tools
• Constraints on bosonic dark matter from ultralow-field nuclear magnetic resonance
• A New Constraint for the Coupling of Axion-like particles to Matter via Ultra-Cold Neutron Gravitational Experiments
• Gauge field theories with Lorentz-violating operators of arbitrary dimension
• New Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of ${}^{129}$Xe using ${}^3$He Comagnetometry and SQUID Detection
• NASDUCK: New Constraints on Axion-like Dark Matter from Floquet Quantum Detector
• Axion-like Relics: New Constraints from Old Comagnetometer Data
• Constraints on axion-like dark matter from a SERF comagnetometer
• Direct limits on the interaction of antiprotons with axion-like dark matter
• Nuclear spin-dependent interactions: Searches for WIMP, Axion and Topological Defect Dark Matter, and Tests of Fundamental Symmetries
• A First Experimental Limit on In-matter Torsion from Neutron Spin Rotation in Liquid He-4
• A New Limit on Possible Long-Range Parity-odd Interactions of the Neutron from Neutron Spin Rotation in Liquid ${}^{4}He$
• Laboratory Constraints on the Neutron-Spin Coupling of feV-scale Axions
• Constraining Ultralight Dark Matter through an Accelerated Resonant Search
• Magnetic shielding and exotic spin-dependent interactions
• Tests of Fundamental Quantum Mechanics and Dark Interactions with Low Energy Neutrons -- Extended Version
• A scalable high-performance magnetic shield for Very Long Baseline Atom Interferometry
• New Limit on Axion-Like Dark Matter using Cold Neutrons
• Precise Measurements of the Decay of Free Neutrons
• Lorentz violation in a uniform newtonian gravitational field
• A Search for Possible Long Range Spin Dependent Interactions of the Neutron From Exotic Vector Boson Exchange
• An Operator Analysis of Contextuality Witness Measurements for Multimode-Entangled Single Neutron Interferometry
• The Pulsed Neutron Beam EDM Experiment
• Violation of a Leggett-Garg inequality using ideal negative measurements in neutron interferometry
• A proposed search for new light bosons using a table-top neutron Ramsey apparatus
• Neutron experiments to search for new spin-dependent interactions

Cited by in corpus (2)

• The HIBEAM Instrument at the European Spallation Source
• A Simulation Framework for Ramsey Interferometry