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We perform a global analysis of searches for the permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) of the neutron, neutral atoms, and molecules in terms of six leptonic, semileptonic, and nonleptonic interactions involving photons, electrons, pions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Timothy Chupp , Michael Ramsey-Musolf

Permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) violate parity and time reversal symmetry. Within the Standard Model (SM) they are many orders of magnitude below present experimental sensitivity. Many extensions of the SM predict much larger EDMs,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-04-12 Gerco Onderwater

Electrons have an intrinsic, indivisible, magnetic dipole aligned with their internal angular momentum (spin). The magnetic interaction between two electrons can therefore impose a change in their spin orientation. This process, however,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-02 Shlomi Kotler , Nitzan Akerman , Nir Navon , Yinnon Glickman , Roee Ozeri

For a twisted (vortex) Dirac particle in nonuniform electric and magnetic fields, the relativistic Foldy-Wouthuysen Hamiltonian is derived including high order terms describing new effects. The result obtained shows for the first time that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Alexander J. Silenko , Pengming Zhang , Liping Zou

Recently an improved limits on the electron electric dipole moment, \eEDM, and dimensionless constant, $k_{T,P}$, characterizing the strength of the T,P-odd pseudoscalar$-$scalar electron$-$nucleus neutral current interaction in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-01-13 L. V. Skripnikov , A. V. Titov

Searches for electric dipole moments (EDMs) in fundamental particles and quantum systems with spin are pivotal experiments at the intersection of low-energy and high-precision particle physics. These investigations offer a complementary…

We report the measurement of the electric dipole moment of aluminum monochloride (AlCl) using a cryogenic buffer-gas beam source. Using Stark shift spectroscopy, we derive values for the dipole moments in the body-fixed frame of the two…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Li-Ren Liu , Miguel Aguirre , Stephen R. Kane , Brian K. Kendrick , Boerge Hemmerling

The energy splitings for $J = 1$, $F=3/2$, $|M_F|=3/2$ hyperfine levels of the $^3\Delta_1$ electronic state of $^{180}$Hf$^{19}$F$^+$ ion are calculated as functions of the external variable electric and magnetic fields within two…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 A. N. Petrov

An experiment to search for the electron electric dipole moment (\eEDM) on the metastable $H^3\Delta_1$ state of ThO molecule was proposed and now in the final stage of preparation by the ACME collaboration [http://www.electronedm.org]. To…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 L. V. Skripnikov , A. N. Petrov , A. V. Titov

Density functional theory (DFT) calculation has had huge success as a tool capable of predicting important physical and chemical properties of condensed matter systems. We calculate the electric dipole moment of a molecule by using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Byeong June Min

The continued interest in placing bounds on the neutron's Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) is due to the implications regarding the characteristics of the strong interaction and, in particular, its behavior under the CP symmetry. In this work,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-26 Octavio Guerrero , Libertad Barrón-Palos , Daniel Sudarsky

The electric dipole moments of nucleons (NEDM, d_N) are calculated using the method of QCD sum rules. Our calculations are based on the parity and time reversal violating parameter $\thetabar$ in QCD and establish a functional dependence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Chuan-Tsung Chan , Ernest M. Henley , Thomas Meissner

Searches for the permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) of molecules, atoms, nucleons and nuclei provide powerful probes of CP violation both within and beyond the Standard Model (BSM). The interpretation of experimental EDM limits…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Jonathan Engel , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , U. van Kolck

We present the concept of a compact storage ring of less than 0.5 m orbit radius to search for the electric dipole moment of the muon ($d_\mu$) by adapting the "frozen spin" method. At existing muon facilities a statistics limited…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-06-25 A. Adelmann , K. Kirch , C. J. G. Onderwater , T. Schietinger

This study investigates the intrinsic electric dipole moment (EDM) of the $\tau$ lepton, which is an important quantity in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). In preparation for future measurements at the Super Tau-Charm…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-09 Xulei Sun , Yongcheng Wu , Xiaorong Zhou

All current experiments searching for an electron EDM d_e are performed with atoms and diatomic molecules. Motivated by significant recent progress in searches for an EDM-type signal in diatomic molecules with an uncompensated electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-26 Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

Searches for intrinsic electric dipole moments (EDMs) of nucleons, atoms and molecules are precision flavor-diagonal probes of new $CP$-odd physics, as motivated by the need to explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

Electric dipole moment (EDM) measurements using paramagnetic molecules have significantly advanced over the last decade. Traditionally, these experiments have been analyzed in terms of the electron EDM. However, paramagnetic molecules are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Wouter Dekens , Jordy de Vries , Lemonia Gialidi , Javier Menéndez , Heleen Mulder , Beatriz Romeo

Following a proposal for an experiment with sensitivity to an electric dipole moment (EDM) of the muon $d_\mu$ of order $6\times10^{-23}\ e$ cm, three to four orders of magnitude below the current bound, but still seven orders of magnitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Kuldeep Deka , Marta Losada , Yosef Nir

A search for a non-zero Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of particles, which is a clear signal of a violation of CP symmetry, is one of the unique ways to discover physics beyond the Standard Model. In this paper, we discuss a method for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 R. T. Ovsiannikov , A. Yu. Korchin , E. Kou