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Haixin Huang

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Continuous coherent spin-frequency metrology in storage rings via resonant beam-driven detection

Precision measurements in storage rings are increasingly limited by the ability to monitor collective spin dynamics coherently over long time scales. Existing polarimetry techniques rely on destructive scattering processes that preclude continuous, non-intercepting tracking of spin evolution and constrain both statistical sensitivity and systematic control. Here we introduce a non-destructive, phase-coherent polarimetry method in which the stored beam polarization is treated as a continuous dynamical observable rather than a quantity inferred from scattering events. Spin-dependent electromagnetic fields generated by a polarized relativistic beam establish a symmetry-selected differential signal on pickup electrodes. This signal is transduced into a narrowband phase modulation of a high-Q resonator interrogated with a coherent probe, while dominant charge-induced backgrounds are rejected through geometric symmetry, helicity reversal, and synchronous demodulation. Controlled spin precession (spin-wheel operation) provides a stable phase reference enabling phase-coherent detection of slow spin evolution. Combined with optimized lattice symmetry and beam cooling, this approach can substantially extend the usable spin coherence time, with values approaching 10^5 s appearing realistic within existing accelerator technology. The resulting readout supports optimal slope-based estimation with T^{-3/2} statistical scaling while eliminating the efficiency penalties inherent to scattering-based polarimetry. For storage-ring EDM experiments, this combination enables sensitivity approaching the level expected within the Standard Model. More broadly, the method establishes a general phase-coherent architecture for collective spin measurements in storage rings, adapting resonant sensing concepts from axion dark-matter searches to charged-particle precision experiments.

hep-ex

Realizing the Scientific Program with Polarized Ion Beams at EIC

Polarized ion beams at the Electron Ion Collider are essential to address some of the most important open questions at the twenty-first century frontiers of understanding of the fundamental structure of matter. Here, we summarize the science case and identify polarized $^2$H, $^3$He, $^6$Li and $^7$Li ion beams as critical technology that will enable experiments which address the most important science. Further, we discuss the required ion polarimetry and spin manipulation in EIC. The current EIC accelerator design is presented. We identify a significant R\&D effort involving both national laboratories and universities that is required over about a decade to realize the polarized ion beams and estimate (based on previous experience) that it will require about 20 FTE over 10 years (or a total of about 200 FTE-years) of personnel, including graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, technicians and engineers. Attracting, educating and training a new generation of physicists in experimental spin techniques will be essential for successful realization. AI/ML is seen as having significant potential for both acceleration of R\&D and amplification of discovery in optimal realization of this unique quantum technology on a cutting-edge collider. The R\&D effort is synergistic with research in atomic physics and fusion energy science.

nucl-ex

Status of the Proton EDM Experiment (pEDM)

The Proton EDM Experiment (pEDM) is the first direct search for the proton electric dipole moment (EDM) with the aim of being the first experiment to probe the Standard Model (SM) prediction of any particle EDM. Phase-I of pEDM will achieve $10^{-29} e\cdot$cm, improving current indirect limits by four orders of magnitude. This will establish a new standard of precision in nucleon EDM searches and offer a unique sensitivity to better understand the Strong CP problem. The experiment is ideally positioned to explore physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM), with sensitivity to axionic dark matter via the signal of an oscillating proton EDM and across a wide mass range of BSM models from $\mathcal{O}(1\text{GeV})$ to $\mathcal{O}(10^3\text{TeV})$. Utilizing the frozen-spin technique in a highly symmetric storage ring that leverages existing infrastructure at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), pEDM builds upon the technological foundation and experimental expertise of the highly successful Muon $g$$-$$2$ Experiments. With significant R\&D and prototyping already underway, pEDM is preparing a conceptual design report (CDR) to offer a cost-effective, high-impact path to discovering new sources of CP violation and advancing our understanding of fundamental physics. It will play a vital role in complementing the physics goals of the next-generation collider while simultaneously contributing to sustaining particle physics research and training early-career researchers during gaps between major collider operations.

hep-ex

SOFFLFM: Super-resolution optical fluctuation Fourier light-field microscopy

Fourier light-field microscopy (FLFM) uses a micro-lens array (MLA) to segment the Fourier Plane of the microscopic objective lens to generate multiple two-dimensional perspective views, thereby reconstructing the three-dimensional(3D) structure of the sample using 3D deconvolution calculation without scanning. However, the resolution of FLFM is still limited by diffraction, and furthermore, dependent on the aperture division. In order to improve its resolution, a Super-resolution optical fluctuation Fourier light field microscopy (SOFFLFM) was proposed here, in which the Sofi method with ability of super-resolution was introduced into FLFM. SOFFLFM uses higher-order cumulants statistical analysis on an image sequence collected by FLFM, and then carries out 3D deconvolution calculation to reconstruct the 3D structure of the sample. Theoretical basis of SOFFLFM on improving resolution was explained and then verified with simulations. Simulation results demonstrated that SOFFLFM improved lateral and axial resolution by more than sqrt(2) and 2 times in the 2nd and 4th order accumulations, compared with that of FLFM.

physics.optics

The storage ring proton EDM experiment

We describe a proposal to search for an intrinsic electric dipole moment (EDM) of the proton with a sensitivity of \targetsens, based on the vertical rotation of the polarization of a stored proton beam. The New Physics reach is of order $10^~3$TeV mass scale. Observation of the proton EDM provides the best probe of CP-violation in the Higgs sector, at a level of sensitivity that may be inaccessible to electron-EDM experiments. The improvement in the sensitivity to $θ_{QCD}$, a parameter crucial in axion and axion dark matter physics, is about three orders of magnitude.

hep-ph

Electric dipole moments and the search for new physics

Static electric dipole moments of nondegenerate systems probe mass scales for physics beyond the Standard Model well beyond those reached directly at high energy colliders. Discrimination between different physics models, however, requires complementary searches in atomic-molecular-and-optical, nuclear and particle physics. In this report, we discuss the current status and prospects in the near future for a compelling suite of such experiments, along with developments needed in the encompassing theoretical framework.

hep-ph