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Theoretical study of HfF$^+$ cation to search for the T,P-odd interactions

Atomic Physics 2017-07-14 v2 Chemical Physics

Abstract

The combined all-electron and two-step approach is applied to calculate the molecular parameters which are required to interpret the ongoing experiment to search for the effects of manifestation of the T,P-odd fundamental interactions in the HfF+^+ cation by Cornell/Ye group [Science 342, 1220 (2013); J. Mol. Spectrosc. 300, 12 (2014)]. The effective electric field that is required to interpret the experiment in terms of the electron electric dipole moment is found to be 22.5 GV/cm. In Ref. [Phys. Rev. D 89, 056006 (2014)] it was shown that another source of T,P-odd interaction, the scalar-pseudoscalar nucleus-electron interaction with the dimensionless strength constant kT,Pk_{T,P} can dominate over the direct contribution from the electron EDM within the standard model and some of its extensions. Therefore, for the comprehensive and correct interpretation of the HfF+^+ experiment one should also know the molecular parameter WT,PW_{T,P} the value of which is reported here to be 20.1 kHz.

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@article{arxiv.1704.07318,
  title  = {Theoretical study of HfF$^+$ cation to search for the T,P-odd interactions},
  author = {L. V. Skripnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07318},
  year   = {2017}
}