Axion-induced effects in atoms, molecules, and nuclei: Parity nonconservation, anapole moments, electric dipole moments, and spin-gravity and spin-axion momentum couplings
By Y. Stadnik, Victor V. Flambaum. 2013
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We show that the interaction of an axion field, or in general a pseudoscalar field, with the axial-vector current generated by an electron through a derivative-type coupling can give rise to a time-dependent mixing of opposite-parity states in atomic and molecular systems. Likewise, the analogous interaction of an axion field with the axial-vector current generated by a nucleon can give rise to time-dependent mixing of opposite-parity states in nuclear systems. This mixing can induce oscillating electric dipole moments, oscillating parity nonconservation effects and oscillating anapole moments in such systems. By adjusting the energy separation between the opposite-parity states of interest to match the axion mass energy, axion-induced experimental observables can be enhanced by many orders of magnitude. Oscillating atomic electric dipole moments can also be generated by axions through hadronic mechanisms, namely the P,T-violating nucleon-nucleon interaction and through the axion-induced electric dipole moments of valence nucleons, which comprise the nuclei. The axion field is modified by Earth's gravitational field. The interaction of the spin of either an electron or nucleon with this modified axion field leads to axion-induced observable effects. These effects, which are of the form $\mathbf{g}\ifmmode\cdot\else\textperiodcentered\fi{}\mathbf{\ensuremath{\sigma}}$, differ from the axion-wind effect, which has the form ${\mathbf{p}}_{\mathrm{a}}\ifmmode\cdot\else\textperiodcentered\fi{}\mathbf{\ensuremath{\sigma}}$.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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