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TaN, a molecular system for probing ${\cal{P,T}}$-violating hadron physics

Atomic Physics 2016-01-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Quantum Physics

Abstract

All-electron configuration interaction theory in the framework of the Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian has been applied to the TaN molecule, a promising candidate in the search for Beyond-Standard-Model physics in both the hadron and the lepton sector of matter. We obtain in the first excited {3Δ1^3\Delta_1} state a P,T{\cal{P,T}}-odd effective electric field of 36.0[GVcm]36.0 \left[\frac{\rm GV}{\rm cm}\right], a scalar-pseudoscalar P,T{\cal{P,T}}-odd interaction constant of 32.832.8 [kHz], and a nuclear magnetic-quadrupole moment interaction constant of 0.740.74 [1033Hzecm2\frac{10^{33} {\text{Hz}}}{e\, {\text{cm}}^2}]. The latter interaction constant has been obtained with a new approach which we describe in detail. Using the same highly correlated all-electron wavefunctions with up to 2.52.5 billion expansion terms, we obtain a parallel magnetic hyperfine interaction constant of 2954-2954 [MHz] for the 181Ta\rm {^{181}{T}a} nucleus, a very large molecule-frame electric dipole moment of 4.91-4.91 [Debye], and spectroscopic constants for the four lowest-lying electronic states of the molecule.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08729,
  title  = {TaN, a molecular system for probing ${\cal{P,T}}$-violating hadron physics},
  author = {Timo Fleig and Malaya K. Nayak and Mikhail Kozlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08729},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages, 2 figures

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