Bounding quantum dark forces

• Autor(a) principal: Brax, Philippe
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Fichet, Sylvain [UNESP], Pignol, Guillaume
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.115034; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/176574

Dark sectors lying beyond the Standard Model and containing sub-GeV particles which are bilinearly coupled to nucleons would induce quantum forces of the Casimir-Polder type in ordinary matter. Such new forces can be tested by a variety of experiments over many orders of magnitude. We provide a generic interpretation of these experimental searches and apply it to a sample of forces from dark scalars behaving as 1/r3, 1/r5, 1/r7 at short range. The landscape of constraints on such quantum forces differs from the one of modified gravity with Yukawa interactions and features, in particular, strong short-distance bounds from molecular spectroscopy and neutron scattering.