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Experiments aiming at measuring the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) are at the forefront of precision measurements and demand instrumentation of increasing sensitivity and reliability. In this paper, we report on the development of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-12-19 O. Bourrion , G. Pignol , D. Rebreyend , C. Vescovi

A concept to search for a neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) is presented, which employs a pulsed neutron beam instead of the nowadays established use of storable ultracold neutrons (UCN). The technique takes advantage of the high peak…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-15 F. M. Piegsa

The experimental limit on the neutron electric dipole moment is used as a possible probe of new physics beyond the standard model. Within MSSM we use the current experimental limit on the neutron EDM and possible future improvement as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Amin Aboubrahim , Tarek Ibrahim , Pran Nath

Considering the CP violating phases, we analyze the neutron electric dipole moment (EDM) in a CP violating supersymmetric extension of the standard model where baryon and lepton numbers are local gauge symmetries(BLMSSM). The contributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Shu-Min Zhao , Tai-Fu Feng , Ben Yan , Hai-Bin Zhang , Yin-Jie Zhang , Biao Chen , Xue-Qian Li

We present for the first time a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the experimental results that set the current world sensitivity limit on the magnitude of the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron. We have extended and enhanced…

A significant fraction of the research effort at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) focuses on weak interaction studies and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. One major effort is the development of a new…

We report on the Beam EDM experiment, which aims to employ a pulsed cold neutron beam to search for an electric dipole moment instead of the established use of storable ultracold neutrons. We present a brief overview of the basic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-08 E. Chanel , Z. Hodge , D. Ries , I. Schulthess , M. Solar , T. Soldner , O. Stalder , J. Thorne , F. M. Piegsa

Using an effective theory approach, we calculate the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) in the minimal left-right symmetric model with both explicit and spontaneous CP violations. We integrate out heavy particles to obtain flavor-neutral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 Fanrong Xu , Haipeng An , Xiangdong Ji

The neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment that is currently being developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will use ultracold neutrons (UCN) and Ramsey's method of separated oscillatory fields to search for a nEDM. In…

Permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) are excellent probes of physics beyond the Standard Model, especially on new sources of CP violation. The muon EDM has recently attracted significant attention due to discrepancies in the magnetic…

A nonvanishing value for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron is a prominent signature for CP violation. The EDM induced by the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism of the standard model (SM) has a small magnitude and its detection will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Noriyuki Oshimo

While the international nEDM collaboration at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) took data in 2017 that covered a considerable fraction of the parameter space of claimed potential signals of hypothetical neutron ($n$) to mirror-neutron ($n'$)…

The Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics is not capable to account for the apparent matter-antimatter asymmetry of our Universe. Physics beyond the SM is required and is either probed by employing highest energies (e.g., at LHC), or by…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-05-01 Frank Rathmann , Nikolai N. Nikolaev

Many experiments are underway in the world to search for a non-zero electric dipole moment (EDM) of a particle with spin 1/2 such as the neutron or the electron. Finding an EDM would reveal new sources of CP violation. EDM measurements are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-18 Guillaume Pignol

We discuss a possibility that the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment (NEDM) can be calculated in lattice QCD simulations in the presence of the CP violating $\theta$ term. In this paper we measure the energy difference between spin-up and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Shintani , S. Aoki , N. Ishizuka , K. Kanaya , Y. Kikukawa , Y. Kuramashi , M. Okawa , A. Ukawa , T. Yoshié

A prototype experiment to measure the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) by spin-rotation in a non-centrosymmetric crystal in Laue geometry was carried out in order to investigate the statistical sensitivity and systematic effects of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Fedorov , E. G. Lapin , E. Lelievre-Berna , V. Nesvizhevsky , A. Petoukhov , S. Yu. Semenikhin , T. Soldner , F. Tasset , V. V. Voronin

Searches for the permanent electric dipole moment of the neutron (nEDM) provide strong constraints on theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The TUCAN collaboration is constructing a source for ultracold neutrons (UCN) and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-03 Steve Sidhu , Wolfgang Schreyer , Sean Vanbergen , Shinsuke Kawasaki , Ryohei Matsumiya , Takahiro Okamura , Ruediger Picker

Trapped ultracold neutrons (UCN) have for many years been the mainstay of experiments to search for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron, a critical parameter in constraining scenarios of new physics beyond the Standard Model.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-01-15 P. G. Harris , J. M. Pendlebury , N. E. Devenish

Permanent Electric Dipole Moments (EDMs) of elementary particles violate two fundamental symmetries: time reversal invariance (T) and parity (P). Assuming the CPT theorem this implies CP-violation. The CP-violation of the Standard Model is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-07-31 Jörg Pretz