Towards the electron EDM search: Theoretical study of HfF+
Atomic Physics
2013-05-29 v2 Chemical Physics
Abstract
We report first ab initio relativistic correlation calculations of potential curves for ten low-lying electronic states, effective electric field on the electron and hyperfine constants for the ^3\Delta_1 state of cation of a heavy transition metal fluoride, HfF^+, that is suggested to be used as the working state in experiments to search for the electric dipole moment of the electron. It is shown that HfF^+ has deeply bound ^1\Sigma^+ ground state, its dissociation energy is D_e=6.4 eV. The ^3\Delta_1 state is obtained to be the relatively long-lived first excited state lying about 0.2 eV higher. The calculated effective electric field E_eff=W_d|\Omega| acting on an electron in this state is 5.84*10^{24}Hz/(e*cm)
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@article{arxiv.physics/0611254,
title = {Towards the electron EDM search: Theoretical study of HfF+},
author = {A. N. Petrov and N. S. Mosyagin and T. A. Isaev and A. V. Titov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0611254},
year = {2013}
}
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