Probing New Intra-Atomic Force with Isotope Shifts: A Neat Thing to Do

2018/10/16 by Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Yamamoto, Yasuhiro
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1810.07146

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Abstract

We discuss a new method to search for a new very weakly interacting light boson with extremely precise atomic spectroscopy, namely, the atomic clock. The contribution of the new physics may appear as the violation of a linear relation of the isotope shift. We evaluated this effect with some simple assumptions. Since the results still have disagreements with works by the other group, we briefly mention some points which should be improved in the future.

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