Publications by authors named "Y V Stadnik"

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  • High-intensity neutron beams at the European Spallation Source (ESS) create new opportunities for fundamental research, particularly in the search for dark matter.
  • A new Ramsey neutron-beam experiment aims to detect ultralight axion dark matter by examining its effects on neutron spins, which would rotate based on their interaction with the dark matter halo.
  • This experiment, conducted at the HIBEAM beamline, is projected to increase the sensitivity of axion-neutron coupling measurements by 2-3 orders of magnitude across a specific mass range (10^{-22} eV to 10^{-16} eV).
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Ultralight scalar dark matter may induce apparent oscillations of the muon mass, which may be directly probed via temporal shifts in the spectra of muonium and muonic atoms. Existing datasets and ongoing spectroscopy measurements with muonium are capable of probing scalar-muon interactions that are up to 12 orders of magnitude more stringent than astrophysical bounds. Ongoing free-fall experiments with muonium can probe forces associated with the exchange of virtual ultralight scalar bosons between muons and standard-model particles, offering up to 5 orders of magnitude improvement in sensitivity over complementary laboratory and astrophysical bounds.

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Astrophysical observations indicate that there is roughly five times more dark matter in the Universe than ordinary baryonic matter, and an even larger amount of the Universe's energy content is attributed to dark energy. However, the microscopic properties of these dark components remain unknown. Moreover, even ordinary matter-which accounts for five per cent of the energy density of the Universe-has yet to be understood, given that the standard model of particle physics lacks any consistent explanation for the predominance of matter over antimatter.

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