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Journal Articles Physical Review D Year : 2018

## Bounding Quantum Dark Forces

Philippe Brax
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Sylvain Fichet
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Guillaume Pignol
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#### 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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Physics [physics]

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cea-01687589 , version 1 (18-01-2018)

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Philippe Brax, Sylvain Fichet, Guillaume Pignol. Bounding Quantum Dark Forces. Physical Review D, 2018, 97, pp.115034. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.97.115034⟩. ⟨cea-01687589⟩

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