Constraints on new vector boson mediated electron-nucleus interactions from spectroscopy of polar diatomic molecules

Abstract

A measurement of parity violation in the hyperfine structure of ${}^{138}$Ba${}^{19}$F [E. Altuntaş et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 142501 (2018)] is reinterpreted with electronic structure calculations in terms of beyond Standard Model vector boson mediated electron-nucleus interactions. Our results set constraints on previously unexplored, new boson mediated axial vector-vector nucleus-electron interactions. Similar bounds are obtained by analyzing the atomic parity violation experiment with ${}^{133}$Cs. Moreover, we show that future experiments with cold heavy diatomic molecules like ${}^{225}$RaF can improve the present sensitivity to axial vector-vector nucleus-electron and nucleon-nucleus interactions by up to five orders of magnitudes.

7 pages, 2 figures, supplemental material; more consistent definition of g^A_N, references and acknowledgements updated, minor corrections on the text