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Probing CP Violation with the Deuteron Electric Dipole Moment

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present an analysis of the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the deuteron as induced by CP-violating operators of dimension 4, 5 and 6 including theta QCD, the EDMs and color EDMs of quarks, four-quark interactions and the Weinberg operator. We demonstrate that the precision goal of the EDM Collaboration's proposal to search for the deuteron EDM, (1-3)\times 10^{-27} e cm, will provide an improvement in sensitivity to these sources of one-two orders of magnitude relative to the existing bounds. We consider in detail the level to which CP-odd phases can be probed within the MSSM.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0402023,
  title  = {Probing CP Violation with the Deuteron Electric Dipole Moment},
  author = {Oleg Lebedev and Keith A. Olive and Maxim Pospelov and Adam Ritz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0402023},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures; precision estimates clarified, to appear in Phys. Rev. D