Search for Ultralight Dark Matter with Spectroscopy of Radio-Frequency Atomic Transitions

Xue Zhang, Abhishek Banerjee, Mahapan Leyser, Gilad Perez, Stephan Schiller, Dmitry Budker, and Dionysios Antypas
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251002 – Published 22 June 2023
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Abstract

The effects of scalar and pseudoscalar ultralight bosonic dark matter (UBDM) were searched for by comparing the frequency of a quartz oscillator to that of a hyperfine-structure transition in Rb87, and an electronic transition in Dy164. We constrain linear interactions between a scalar UBDM field and standard-model (SM) fields for an underlying UBDM particle mass in the range 1×10178.3×1013eV and quadratic interactions between a pseudoscalar UBDM field and SM fields in the range 5×10184.1×1013eV. Within regions of the respective ranges, our constraints on linear interactions significantly improve on results from previous, direct searches for oscillations in atomic parameters, while constraints on quadratic interactions surpass limits imposed by such direct searches as well as by astrophysical observations.

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  • Received 12 December 2022
  • Accepted 23 May 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.251002

© 2023 American Physical Society

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Atomic, Molecular & OpticalParticles & Fields

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Xue Zhang1, Abhishek Banerjee2, Mahapan Leyser1, Gilad Perez2, Stephan Schiller3, Dmitry Budker1,4, and Dionysios Antypas5,1,*

  • 1Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, 55128 Mainz, Germany
  • 2Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 761001, Israel
  • 3Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 4Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 5Department of Physics, University of Crete, 70013 Heraklion-Crete, Greece

  • *dantypas@physics.uoc.gr

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Vol. 130, Iss. 25 — 23 June 2023

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