Physics Department, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Mar 7;112(9):091803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.091803. Epub 2014 Mar 6.
We use the recently developed model of the electron spins within Earth to investigate all of the six possible long-range velocity-dependent spin-spin interactions associated with the exchange of an ultralight (mz'<10(-10) eV) or massless intermediate vector boson. Several laboratory experiments have established upper limits on the energy associated with various fermion-spin orientations relative to Earth. We combine the results from three of these experiments with the geoelectron-spin model to obtain bounds on the velocity-dependent interactions that couple electron spin to the spins of electrons, neutrons, and protons. Five of the six possible potentials investigated were previously unbounded. In the long-range limit we have improved the bound on the sixth potential by 30 orders of magnitude.
我们利用最近发展起来的地球内部电子自旋模型,研究了与超轻(mz'<10(-10) eV)或无质量中间矢量玻色子交换相关的所有六种可能的长程速度相关自旋-自旋相互作用。几项实验室实验已经对各种相对于地球的费米子自旋取向与能量的关联建立了上限。我们将其中三个实验的结果与地球电子自旋模型相结合,得到了与电子、中子和质子自旋耦合的速度相关相互作用的限制。所研究的六种可能势中有五种以前是没有限制的。在长程极限下,我们将第六种势的限制提高了 30 个数量级。