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We reexamine the estimate of the neutron Electric Dipole Moment (NEDM) from chiral and QCD spectral sum rules (QSSR) approaches. In the former, we evaluate the pion mass corrections which are about 5% of the leading Log. results. However,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephan Narison

Existing limits on the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the free neutron have provided critical constraints on new sources of CP violation for more than 60 years. A new round of searches are actively underway with the goal of improving the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-10 B. W. Filippone

Magnetic neutron scattering measures spin-spin correlations giving information about the long-range spin order as well as the shape of the spin density in magnetic materials. Similarly, detailed first principles calculations directly…

A new highly sensitive method of looking for electric dipole moments of charged particles in storage rings is described. The major systematic errors inherent in the method are addressed and ways to minimize them are suggested. It seems…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-01-22 F. J. M. Farley , K. Jungmann , J. P. Miller , W. M. Morse , Y. F. Orlov , B. L. Roberts , Y. K. Semertzidis , A. Silenko , E. J. Stephenson

Even if only a small fraction of neutron dipole moments are aligned in a neutron star, observed pulsar radiation loses provide a stringent limit on the neutron electric dipole moment of <10-29 ecm, more stringent than best current…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-15 C. Sivaram

The permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the $^{171}$Yb $(I=1/2)$ atom is measured with atoms held in an optical dipole trap (ODT). By enabling a cycling transition that is simultaneously spin-selective and spin-preserving, a quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 T. A. Zheng , Y. A. Yang , S. -Z. Wang , J. T. Singh , Z. -X. Xiong , T. Xia , Z. -T. Lu

Baryon number violation is a key ingredient of baryogenesis. It has been hypothesized that there could also be a parity-conjugated copy of the standard model particles, called mirror particles. The existence of such a mirror universe has…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-03-01 Prajwal Mohanmurthy , Albert R. Young , Jeff A. Winger , Geza Zsigmond

Present limit on the electron electric dipole moment ($e$EDM) is based on the electron spin precession measurement. We propose an alternative approach - observation of the $\mathcal{P}$,$\mathcal{T}$-odd Faraday effect in an external…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 D. V. Chubukov , L. V. Skripnikov , L. Bougas , L. N. Labzowsky

We propose the design of a Resonance SPin-echo spECtrometer for exTreme studies, RESPECT, that is ideally suited for the exploration of non-dispersive processes such as diffusion, crystallization, slow dynamics, tunneling processes, crystal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Robert Georgii , Jonas Kindervater , Christian Pfleiderer , Peter Böni

We are proposing a new method to carry out a dedicated search for a permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the muon with a sensitivity at a level of 10^{-24} e cm. The experimental design exploits the strong motional electric field…

This document is a copy of the original 2003 proposal for the construction grant for the CryoEDM Experiment at ILL, Grenoble. It is here made publicly available as a technical reference source for interested parties. It does not necessarily…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-09-18 S. N. Balashov , K. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , P. G. Harris , H. Kraus , J. M. Pendlebury , D. B. Shiers , M. A. H. Tucker , D. L. Wark

Explaining the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe requires new sources of CP violation beyond the predictions of the Standard Model (SM). Electric dipole moments (EDMs) of particles, being zero if CP is exactly conserved and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-01 Francesco Renga

The electric dipole moments (EDMs) of diamagnetic atoms are expected to be sensitive to charge-parity violation particularly in nuclei through the nuclear Schiff moment. I explicitly demonstrate that the well-known form of the Schiff moment…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-10 Kota Yanase

From the famous experiments of Stern and Gerlach to the present, measurements of magnetic dipole moments, and searches for electric dipole moments of ``elementary'' particles have played a major role in our understanding of sub-atomic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Lee Roberts

When the magnetic moment of neutron m presesses around a static magnetic field B the electric dipole moment of neutron dn is tied up with m and rotates in the plane perpendicular to B with Larmor frequency wp. If to apply the oscillating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Kopylov

Magnetic field uniformity is of the utmost importance in experiments to measure the electric dipole moment of the neutron. A general parametrization of the magnetic field in terms of harmonic polynomial modes is proposed, going beyond the…

Upper limits on the electric dipole moments (EDM) of elementary particles and atoms are presented, and their physical implications are discussed. The bounds following from the neutron and atomic experiments are comparable. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 I. B. Khriplovich

We present the design and characterization of a low-noise environment for measuring the electron's electric dipole moment (EDM) with a beam of molecules. To minimize magnetic Johnson noise from metals, the design features ceramic electric…

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

It has been proposed that there could be a mirror copy of the standard model particles, restoring the parity symmetry in the weak interaction on the global level. Oscillations between a neutral standard model particle, such as the neutron,…