PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Garcon, Antoine
AU  - Blanchard, John W.
AU  - Centers, Gary P.
AU  - Figueroa, Nataniel L.
AU  - Graham, Peter W.
AU  - Jackson Kimball, Derek F.
AU  - Rajendran, Surjeet
AU  - Sushkov, Alexander O.
AU  - Stadnik, Yevgeny V.
AU  - Wickenbrock, Arne
AU  - Wu, Teng
AU  - Budker, Dmitry
TI  - Constraints on bosonic dark matter from ultralow-field nuclear magnetic resonance
AID  - 10.1126/sciadv.aax4539
DP  - 2019 Oct 01
TA  - Science Advances
PG  - eaax4539
VI  - 5
IP  - 10
4099  - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaax4539.short
4100  - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaax4539.full
SO  - Sci Adv2019 Oct 01; 5
AB  - The nature of dark matter, the invisible substance making up over 80% of the matter in the universe, is one of the most fundamental mysteries of modern physics. Ultralight bosons such as axions, axion-like particles, or dark photons could make up most of the dark matter. Couplings between such bosons and nuclear spins may enable their direct detection via nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy: As nuclear spins move through the galactic dark-matter halo, they couple to dark matter and behave as if they were in an oscillating magnetic field, generating a dark-matter–driven NMR signal. As part of the cosmic axion spin precession experiment (CASPEr), an NMR-based dark-matter search, we use ultralow-field NMR to probe the axion-fermion “wind” coupling and dark-photon couplings to nuclear spins. No dark matter signal was detected above background, establishing new experimental bounds for dark matter bosons with masses ranging from 1.8 × 10−16 to 7.8 × 10−14 eV.