TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.2.058
TI  - Search for ultralight axion dark matter in a side-band analysis of a ${}^{199}$Hg free-spin precession signal
PY  - 2023/08/09
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.2.058
JF  - SciPost Physics
JA  - SciPost Phys.
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
SP  - 058
A1  - Abel, C.
AU  - Ayres, N. J.
AU  - Ban, G.
AU  - Bison, G.
AU  - Bodek, K.
AU  - Bondar, V.
AU  - Chanel, E.
AU  - Crawford, C. B.
AU  - Daum, M.
AU  - Dechenaux, B.
AU  - Emmenegger, S.
AU  - Flaux, P.
AU  - Griffith, W. C.
AU  - Harris, P. G.
AU  - Kermaidic, Y.
AU  - Kirch, K.
AU  - Komposch, S.
AU  - Koss, P. A.
AU  - Krempel, J.
AU  - Lauss, B.
AU  - Lefort, T.
AU  - MohanMurthy, Prajwal
AU  - Naviliat Cuncic, Oscar
AU  - Pais, D.
AU  - Piegsa, F. M.
AU  - Pignol, Guillaume
AU  - Rawlik, M.
AU  - Ries, D.
AU  - Roccia, Stephanie
AU  - Rozpedzik, D.
AU  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Philipp
AU  - Severijns, N.
AU  - Stadnik, Y. V.
AU  - Thorne, J. A.
AU  - Weis, A.
AU  - Wursten, E.
AU  - Zejma, Jacek
AU  - Zsigmond, Geza
AB  - Ultra-low-mass axions are a viable dark matter candidate and may form a coherently oscillating classical field. Nuclear spins in experiments on Earth might couple to this oscillating axion dark-matter field, when propagating on Earth's trajectory through our Galaxy. This spin coupling resembles an oscillating pseudo-magnetic field which modulates the spin precession of nuclear spins. Here we report on the null result of a demonstration experiment searching for a frequency modulation of the free spin-precession signal of \magHg in a 1 $\mu$T magnetic field. Our search covers the axion mass range $10^{-16}$ eV $\lesssim m_a \lesssim 10^{-13}$ eV and achieves a peak sensitivity to the axion-nucleon coupling of $g_{aNN} \approx 3.5 \times 10^{-6}$ GeV$^{-1}$.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.2.058,
	title={{Search for ultralight axion dark matter in a side-band analysis of a ${}^{199}$Hg free-spin precession signal}},
	author={C. Abel and N. J. Ayres and G. Ban and G. Bison and K. Bodek and V. Bondar and E. Chanel and C. B. Crawford and M. Daum and B. Dechenaux and S. Emmenegger and P. Flaux and W. C. Griffith and P. G. Harris and Y. Kermaidic and K. Kirch and S. Komposch and P. A. Koss and J. Krempel and B. Lauss and T. Lefort and Prajwal MohanMurthy and Oscar Naviliat Cuncic and D. Pais and F. M. Piegsa and Guillaume Pignol and M. Rawlik and D. Ries and Stephanie Roccia and D. Rozpedzik and Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg and N. Severijns and Y. V. Stadnik and J. A. Thorne and A. Weis and E. Wursten and Jacek Zejma and Geza Zsigmond},
	journal={SciPost Phys.},
	volume={15},
	pages={058},
	year={2023},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.2.058},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.2.058},
}

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• ¹ C. Abel,
• ^{1 2} N. J. Ayres,
• ³ G. Ban,
• ⁴ G. Bison,
• ⁵ K. Bodek,
• ^{2 4 6} V. Bondar,
• ⁷ E. Chanel,
• ⁸ C. B. Crawford,
• ⁴ M. Daum,
• ³ B. Dechenaux,
• ⁴ S. Emmenegger,
• ³ P. Flaux,
• ¹ W. C. Griffith,
• ¹ P. G. Harris,
• ⁹ Y. Kermaidic,
• ^{2 4} K. Kirch,
• ^{2 4} S. Komposch,
• ⁶ P. A. Koss,
• ² J. Krempel,
• ⁴ B. Lauss,
• ³ T. Lefort,
• ^{2 4} Prajwal MohanMurthy,
• ³ Oscar Naviliat Cuncic,
• ^{2 4} D. Pais,
• ⁷ F. M. Piegsa,
• ⁹ Guillaume Pignol,
• ² M. Rawlik,
• ¹⁰ D. Ries,
• ⁹ Stephanie Roccia,
• ⁵ D. Rozpedzik,
• ⁴ Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg,
• ⁶ N. Severijns,
• ¹¹ Y. V. Stadnik,
• ^{1 7} J. A. Thorne,
• ¹² A. Weis,
• ⁶ E. Wursten,
• ⁵ Jacek Zejma,
• ⁴ Geza Zsigmond

• ¹ University of Sussex
• ² Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) [ETH Zurich]
• ³ Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
• ⁴ Paul Scherrer Institute [PSI]
• ⁵ Uniwersytet Jagielloński / Jagiellonian University
• ⁶ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven / KU Leuven [KU Leuven]
• ⁷ University of Bern [Univ Bern]
• ⁸ University of Kentucky
• ⁹ Université Grenoble Alpes / Grenoble Alpes University [UGA]
• ¹⁰ Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz / Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
• ¹¹ University of Sydney [USYD]
• ¹² Université de Fribourg / University of Fribourg