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Constraints on the axion and corrections to newtonian gravity from the Casimir effect

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The axion is a light pseudoscalar particle of much interest for particle physics and astrophysics. We review the recently obtained constraints on the axion to nucleon coupling constants following from different experiments for measuring the Casimir interaction. These constraints are compared with those following from other laboratory experiments in a wide range of masses of axion-like particles, from 10−10 to 20 eV. We also collect the strongest constraints on Yukawa-type and power-type corrections to the Newton law of gravity which follow from measurements of the Casimir interaction, Eötvos- and Cavendish-type experiments. A possibility of obtaining stronger constraints on the axion from the Casimir effect is proposed.

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  2. Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology, and Telecommunications, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, St. Petersburg, 195251, Russia

    G. L. Klimchitskaya & V. M. Mostepanenko

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Klimchitskaya, G.L., Mostepanenko, V.M. Constraints on the axion and corrections to newtonian gravity from the Casimir effect. Gravit. Cosmol. 21, 1–12 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0202289315010077

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