activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

hep-ph2026

The COSMIC WISPers White Paper: The physics case for Weakly Interacting Slim Particles

Ariel Arza, Deniz Aybas, Shyam Balaji +124

Axions and other very weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs), with masses below 1 GeV, arise naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In particula…

physics.atom-ph2026

Testing Exotic Electron-Electron Interactions with the Helium Ionization-Energy Anomaly

Lei Cong, Filip Ficek, Rinat Abdullin +2

Precision atomic spectroscopy provides a sensitive probe of physics beyond the Standard Model. A recently reported theory-experiment discrepancy in the ionization energy of me…

hep-ph2025

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

Konstantin Gaul, Lei Cong, Dmitry Budker

A measurement of parity violation in the hyperfine structure of BaF [E. Altuntaş et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 142501 (2018)] is reinterpreted with electronic structu…

physics.atom-ph2025

Searching for Exotic Interactions between Antimatter

Lei Cong, Filip Ficek, Pavel Fadeev +2

We show that atomic antimatter spectroscopy can be used to search for new bosons that carry spin-dependent exotic forces between antifermions. A comparison of a recent precise meas…

hep-ph2025

New Constraints on Axion Mediated Dipole-Dipole Interactions

Zitong Xu, Xing Heng, Guoqing Tian +5

The search for axions sits at the intersection of solving critical problems in fundamental physics, including the strong CP problem in QCD, uncovering the nature of dark matter, an…

physics.atom-ph2024

Constraints on exotic interactions from scalar spin-spin coupling in tritium deuteride (DT)

Lei Cong, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Mikhail G. Kozlov +1

A comparison of theoretical and experimental values of the scalar spin-spin interaction (-coupling) in tritium deuteride molecules yield constraints for nucleon-nucleon exotic i…