Probing new hadronic forces with heavy exotic atoms
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| author | Liu, Hongkai Ohayon, Ben Shtaif, Omer Soreq, Yotam |
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| contents | We explore the potential of precision spectroscopy of heavy exotic atoms where electrons are substituted by negative hadrons to detect new force carriers with hadronic couplings. The selected transitions are unaffected by nuclear contact terms, thus enabling highly accurate calculations using bound-state QED, provided that the nuclear polarization is under control. Alternatively, we demonstrate that the dipole polarizability, a fundamental property of nuclei, can be extracted from the spectroscopy of exotic atoms in a novel way by combining two transitions while maintaining high sensitivity to new physics. Based on existing data, we extracted world-leading bounds on mediator masses ranging from $0.1\,$MeV to $10\,$MeV for two benchmark models and show that forthcoming experiments could enhance the sensitivity to new physics by two orders of magnitude. |
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| spellingShingle | Probing new hadronic forces with heavy exotic atoms Liu, Hongkai Ohayon, Ben Shtaif, Omer Soreq, Yotam High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Atomic Physics We explore the potential of precision spectroscopy of heavy exotic atoms where electrons are substituted by negative hadrons to detect new force carriers with hadronic couplings. The selected transitions are unaffected by nuclear contact terms, thus enabling highly accurate calculations using bound-state QED, provided that the nuclear polarization is under control. Alternatively, we demonstrate that the dipole polarizability, a fundamental property of nuclei, can be extracted from the spectroscopy of exotic atoms in a novel way by combining two transitions while maintaining high sensitivity to new physics. Based on existing data, we extracted world-leading bounds on mediator masses ranging from $0.1\,$MeV to $10\,$MeV for two benchmark models and show that forthcoming experiments could enhance the sensitivity to new physics by two orders of magnitude. |
| title | Probing new hadronic forces with heavy exotic atoms |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03537 |