1. Overview of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr)
- Author
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Kimball, D. F. Jackson, Afach, S., Aybas, D., Blanchard, J. W., Budker, D., Centers, G., Engler, M., Figueroa, N. L., Garcon, A., Graham, P. W., Luo, H., Rajendran, S., Sendra, M. G., Sushkov, A. O., Wang, T., Wickenbrock, A., Wilzewski, A., and Wu, T.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
An overview of our experimental program to search for axion and axion-like-particle (ALP) dark matter using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques is presented. An oscillating axion field can exert a time-varying torque on nuclear spins either directly or via generation of an oscillating nuclear electric dipole moment (EDM). Magnetic resonance techniques can be used to detect such an effect. The first-stage experiments explore many decades of ALP parameter space beyond the current astrophysical and laboratory bounds. It is anticipated that future versions of the experiments will be sensitive to the axions associated with quantum chromodynamics (QCD) having masses $\lesssim 10^{-9}~{\rm eV}/c^2$., 9 pages, 4 figures
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- 2017