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Indirect searches for dark matter with the nEDM spectrometer
by S. Roccia and G. Zsigmond on behalf of the nEDM collaboration at PSI
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Geza Zsigmond |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202102_00026v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | April 28, 2021 |
| Date submitted: | March 26, 2021, 10:24 a.m. |
| Submitted by: | Geza Zsigmond |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | Review of Particle Physics at PSI (PSI2020) |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Experimental |
Abstract
The nEDM apparatus at PSI has been used to search for different dark matter signatures utilizing its high sensitivity to shifts in the neutron precession frequency and its well-controlled low magnetic field at the microT level. Such a shift could be interpreted as a consequence of a short-range spin-dependent interaction that could possibly be mediated by axions or axion-like particles, or as an axion-induced oscillating electric dipole moment of the neutron. Another search, based on so-called UCN disappearance measurements, targeted previously reported signals of neutron to mirror-neutron oscillations. These dark matter searches confirmed and improved previous results, as detailed in this review.
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Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 5, 028 (2021)