What can a GNOME do? Search targets for the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic physics searches

Understand

Numerous observations suggest that there exist undiscovered beyond-the-Standard-Model particles and fields.

• Because of their unknown nature, these exotic particles and fields could interact with Standard Model particles in many different ways and assume a variety of possible configurations.
• Here we present an overview of the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic physics searches (GNOME), our ongoing experimental program designed to test a wide range of exotic physics scenarios.
• The GNOME experiment utilizes a worldwide network of shielded atomic magnetometers (and, more recently, comagnetometers) to search for spatially and temporally correlated signals due to torques on atomic spins from exotic fields of astrophysical origin.