Abstract
We report on a new constraint on gravitylike short-range forces, in which the
interaction charge is mass, obtained by measuring the angular distribution of 5
A neutrons scattering off atomic xenon gas. Around 10^7 scattering events were
collected at the 40 m small angle neutron scattering beam line located at the
HANARO research reactor of the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute. The
extracted coupling strengths of new forces in the Yukawa-type parametrization
are g^2 = (0.2 6.8 2.0) 10^-15 GeV^2 and g^2 = (-5.3 9.0 +
2.7 -2.8) 10^-17 GeV^2 for interaction ranges of 0.1 and 1.0 nm,
respectively. These strengths correspond to 95\% confidence level limits of g^2
< (1.4 0.2) 10^-14 GeV^-2 and g^2 < (1.3 0.2) 10^-16
GeV^-2, improving the current limits for interaction ranges between 4 and 0.04
nm by a factor of up to 10.
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