Wideband Search for Axionlike Dark Matter Using Octupolar Nuclei in a Crystal

Understand

Most of the matter in the Universe is in the form of dark matter, which has evaded detection so far.

• Ultralight axionlike particles (ALPs) are a class of dark matter candidates that produce measurable signatures in the form of oscillating violations of discrete symmetries in nuclei.
• We report results from a search for an oscillating parity-odd time-reversal-odd nuclear Schiff moment of $^{153}$Eu ions in a crystal, which leads to constraints on ALP-gluon coupling strength across a wide band spanning eight decades in ALP mass.