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NASDUCK: New Constraints on Axion-like Dark Matter from Floquet Quantum Detector (2105.04603v3)

Published 10 May 2021 in hep-ph, hep-ex, physics.atom-ph, and quant-ph

Abstract: We report on the first results of the Noble and Alkali Spin Detectors for Ultralight Coherent darK matter (NASDUCK) collaboration. We search for the interactions of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with atomic spins using an earth-based precision quantum detector as it traverses through the galactic dark matter halo. The detector is composed of spin-polarized xenon gas which can coherently interact with a background ALP dark matter field and an in-situ rubidium Floquet optical-magnetometer. Conducting a five months-long search, we derive new constraints on ALP-proton and ALP-neutron interactions in the $4\times 10{-15}-4\times 10{-12}{~\rm eV/c2}$ mass range. Our limits on the ALP-proton (ALP-neutron) couplings improve upon previous terrestrial bounds by up to 3 orders of magnitude for masses above $4\times 10{-14}{~\rm eV/c2}$ ($4\times 10{-13}{~\rm eV/c2}$). Moreover, barring the uncertain supernova constraints, the ALP-proton bound improves on all existing terrestrial and astrophysical limits, partially closing the unexplored region for couplings in the range $10{-6}~{\rm GeV{-1}}$ to $2\times 10{-5}~{\rm GeV{-1}}$. Finally, we also cast bounds on pseudo-scalar dark matter models in which dark matter is quadratically-coupled to the nucleons.

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