Electric dipole moments of superheavy elements - A case study on copernicium
Atomic Physics
2016-08-10 v2 Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock (MCDHF) method was employed to calculate atomic electric dipole moments (EDM) of the superheavy element copernicium (Cn, ). The EDM enhancement factors of Cn, here calculated for the first time, are about one order of magnitude larger than those of Hg. The exponential dependence of enhancement factors on atomic number along group 12 of the periodic table was derived from the EDMs of the entire homolog series, Zn, Cd, Hg, Cn, and Uhb. These results show that superheavy elements with sufficiently large half-lives are good candidates for EDM searches.
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@article{arxiv.1508.03974,
title = {Electric dipole moments of superheavy elements - A case study on copernicium},
author = {Laima Radžiūtė and Gediminas Gaigalas and Per Jönsson and Jacek Bieroń},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.03974},
year = {2016}
}
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10 pages, 3 figures