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

Xue Zhang; Abhishek Banerjee; Mahapan Leyser; Gilad Perez; Stephan Schiller; Dmitry Budker; Dionysios Antypas

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.251002

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

Xue Zhang, Abhishek Banerjee, Mahapan Leyser, Gilad Perez, Stephan Schiller, Dmitry Budker, Dionysios Antypas

Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Weizmann Institute of Science

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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 ⁸⁷Rb, and an electronic transition in ¹⁶⁴Dy. We constrain linear interactions between a scalar UBDM field and standard-model (SM) fields for an underlying UBDM particle mass in the range 1×10^-17-8.3×10^-13 eV and quadratic interactions between a pseudoscalar UBDM field and SM fields in the range 5×10^-18-4.1×10^-13 eV. 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.

Original language	English
Article number	251002
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	130
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.251002
State	Published - 23 Jun 2023

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