Constraining new physics models with isotope shift spectroscopy

Claudia Frugiuele, Elina Fuchs, Gilad Perez, Matthias Schlaffer

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Abstract

Isotope shifts of transition frequencies in atoms constrain generic long-and intermediate-range interactions. We focus on new physics scenarios that can be most strongly constrained by King linearity violation such as models with B - L vector bosons, the Higgs portal, and chameleon models. With the anticipated precision, King linearity violation has the potential to set the strongest laboratory bounds on these models in some regions of parameter space. Furthermore, we show that this method can probe the couplings relevant for the protophobic interpretation of the recently reported Be anomaly. We extend the formalism to include an arbitrary number of transitions and isotope pairs and fit the new physics coupling to the currently available isotope shift measurements.
Original languageEnglish
Article number015011
Number of pages11
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume96
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Jul 2017

Funding

United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation; European Research Council; Israeli Science Foundation; Minerva; Weizmann-UK Making Connections Programme We thank Cedric Delaunay and Yotam Soreq for useful discussions and for carefully reading our draft. The work of G. P. is supported by grants from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, European Research Council, Israeli Science Foundation, Minerva, and the Weizmann-UK Making Connections Programme.

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