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Title: Searching for New Fundamental Interactions via Isotopic Shifts in Molecular Lattice Clocks

Abstract: Precision measurements with ultracold atoms and molecules are primed to probe beyond-the-Standard Model physics. Isotopologues of homonuclear molecules are a natural testbed for new Yukawa-type mass-dependent forces at nanometer scales, complementing existing mesoscopic-body and neutron scattering experiments. Here we propose using isotopic shift measurements in molecular lattice clocks to constrain these new interactions from new massive scalar particles in keV$/c^2$ range: the new interaction would impart an extra isotopic shift to molecular levels on top of one predicted by the Standard Model. For the strontium dimer, a Hz-level agreement between experiment and theory could constrain the coupling of the new particles to hadrons by up to an order-of-magnitude over the most stringent existing experiments.
Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted
Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
Cite as: arXiv:2403.07097 [physics.atom-ph]
  (or arXiv:2403.07097v1 [physics.atom-ph] for this version)

Submission history

From: Brandon Iritani [view email]
[v1] Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:45:08 GMT (351kb,D)

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