An atomic probe of dark matter differential interactions with elementary particles
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| author | Rosenzweig, Yossi Kats, Yevgeny Givon, Menachem Japha, Yonathan Folman, Ron |
| author_facet | Rosenzweig, Yossi Kats, Yevgeny Givon, Menachem Japha, Yonathan Folman, Ron |
| contents | Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model is one of the main tasks of experimental physics. Candidates for dark matter include axion-like ultralight bosonic particles. Comagnetometers form ultra-high sensitivity probes for such particles and any exotic field that interacts with the spin of an atom. Here, we propose a multi-atom-species probe that enables not only to discover such fields and measure their spectrum but also to determine the ratios of their coupling strengths to sub-atomic elementary particles, electrons, neutrons and protons. We further show that the multi-faceted capabilities of this probe may be demonstrated with synthetic exotic fields generated by a combination of regular magnetic fields and light-induced fictitious magnetic fields in alkali atoms. These synthetic fields also enable the accurate calibration of any magnetometer or comagnetometer probe for exotic physics. |
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| spellingShingle | An atomic probe of dark matter differential interactions with elementary particles Rosenzweig, Yossi Kats, Yevgeny Givon, Menachem Japha, Yonathan Folman, Ron High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Quantum Physics Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model is one of the main tasks of experimental physics. Candidates for dark matter include axion-like ultralight bosonic particles. Comagnetometers form ultra-high sensitivity probes for such particles and any exotic field that interacts with the spin of an atom. Here, we propose a multi-atom-species probe that enables not only to discover such fields and measure their spectrum but also to determine the ratios of their coupling strengths to sub-atomic elementary particles, electrons, neutrons and protons. We further show that the multi-faceted capabilities of this probe may be demonstrated with synthetic exotic fields generated by a combination of regular magnetic fields and light-induced fictitious magnetic fields in alkali atoms. These synthetic fields also enable the accurate calibration of any magnetometer or comagnetometer probe for exotic physics. |
| title | An atomic probe of dark matter differential interactions with elementary particles |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05894 |