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Bounding Quantum Dark Forces

Abstract : 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/$r^3$ , 1/$r^5$ , 1/$r^7$ 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.
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Philippe Brax, Sylvain Fichet, Guillaume Pignol. Bounding Quantum Dark Forces. Physical Review D, American Physical Society, 2018, 97, pp.115034. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.97.115034⟩. ⟨cea-01687589⟩

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