Proposal for a cosmic axion spin precession experiment (CASPEr)

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Budker, Dmitry ^a,b,f   Graham, Peter W ^c   Ledbetter, Micah ^d   Rajendran, Surjeet ^c   Sushkov, Alexander O ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AOSense Inc   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmology

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GALAXIES;

DECAY CONSTANTS; EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME; NUCLEAR MOMENT; NUCLEAR SPINS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETER SPACES; SPIN PRECESSION; TIME VARYING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84904567126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021030     Document Type: Article

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