The Juno Mission as a Probe of Long-Range New Physics

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Main Authors: Singh, Praniti, Yan, Shi, Allali, Itamar J., Fan, JiJi, Li, Lingfeng
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Published: 2024
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author Singh, Praniti
Yan, Shi
Allali, Itamar J.
Fan, JiJi
Li, Lingfeng
author_facet Singh, Praniti
Yan, Shi
Allali, Itamar J.
Fan, JiJi
Li, Lingfeng
contents Orbits of celestial objects, especially the geocentric and heliocentric ones, have been well explored to constrain new long-range forces beyond the Standard Model (SM), often referred to as fifth forces. In this paper, for the first time, we apply the motion of a spacecraft around Jupiter to probe fifth forces that don't violate the equivalence principle. The spacecraft is the Juno orbiter, and ten of its early orbits already allow a precise determination of the Jovian gravitational field. We use the shift in the precession angle as a proxy to test non-gravitational interactions between Juno and Jupiter. Requiring that the contribution from the fifth force does not exceed the uncertainty of the precession shift inferred from data, we find that a new parameter space with the mass of the fifth-force mediator around $10^{-14}$ eV is excluded at 95% C.L.
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spellingShingle The Juno Mission as a Probe of Long-Range New Physics
Singh, Praniti
Yan, Shi
Allali, Itamar J.
Fan, JiJi
Li, Lingfeng
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Space Physics
Orbits of celestial objects, especially the geocentric and heliocentric ones, have been well explored to constrain new long-range forces beyond the Standard Model (SM), often referred to as fifth forces. In this paper, for the first time, we apply the motion of a spacecraft around Jupiter to probe fifth forces that don't violate the equivalence principle. The spacecraft is the Juno orbiter, and ten of its early orbits already allow a precise determination of the Jovian gravitational field. We use the shift in the precession angle as a proxy to test non-gravitational interactions between Juno and Jupiter. Requiring that the contribution from the fifth force does not exceed the uncertainty of the precession shift inferred from data, we find that a new parameter space with the mass of the fifth-force mediator around $10^{-14}$ eV is excluded at 95% C.L.
title The Juno Mission as a Probe of Long-Range New Physics
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Space Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10616