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We use the technique of chopped nonlinear magneto-optic rotation (NMOR) in a room temperature $^{133}$Cs vapor cell to measure the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) in the atom. The cell has paraffin coating on the walls to increase…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Harish Ravi , Mangesh Bhattarai , Abhilash Y D , Ummal Momeen , Vasant Natarajan

Electric dipole moments (EDMs) of elementary particles and atoms probe violations of T and P symmetries and consequently of CP if CPT is an exact symmetry. We point out that EDMs can also serve as sensitive probes of CPT-odd, CP-even…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-09 Pavel Bolokhov , Maxim Pospelov , Michael Romalis

The electric dipole moment (EDM) of a particle violates both time reversal (T) and space reflection (P) symmetries. There have been recent suggestions for searches of the electron EDM using solid state experiments [1,2]. These experiments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Kuenzi , O. P. Sushkov , V. A. Dzuba , J. M. Cadogan

A Cs fountain electron electric dipole moment (EDM) experiment using electric-field quantization is demonstrated. With magnetic fields reduced to 200 pT or less, the electric field lifts the degeneracy between hyperfine levels of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Jason M. Amini , Charles T. Munger , Harvey Gould

This paper is a theoretical work in support of a newly proposed experiment (R. Stutz and E. Cornell, Bull. Am. Soc. Phys. 89, 76 2004) that promises greater sensitivity to measurements of the electron's electric dipole moment (EDM) based on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edmund R. Meyer , John L. Bohn , Michael P. Deskevich

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

We present progress towards a new measurement of the electron electric dipole moment using a cold supersonic beam of YbF molecules. Data are currently being taken with a sensitivity of $10^{-27}\textrm{e.cm}/\sqrt{\textrm{day}}$. We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. E. Sauer , H. T. Ashworth , J. J. Hudson , M. R. Tarbutt , E. A. Hinds

We present an approach to compute the electric and magnetic dipole moments of an electron by using polarization and magnetization parts of the Dirac current. We show that these dipole moment expressions obtained by our approach in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-05 Semra Gurtas Dogan , Ganim Gecim , Yusuf Sucu

The metastable $H \ {}^3\Delta_1$ state in the thorium monoxide (ThO) molecule is highly sensitive to the presence of a CP-violating permanent electric dipole moment of the electron (eEDM). The magnetic dipole moment $\mu_H$ and the…

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 2011-08-17 B. Lee Roberts

A resonance method of measuring the electric dipole moment (EDM) of nuclei in storage rings is described, based on two new ideas: (1) Oscillating particles' velocities in resonance with spin precession, and (2) alternately producing two…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri F. Orlov , William M. Morse , Yannis K. Semertzidis

The Electric Dipole Moment of the electron (eEDM) is typically investigated in experiments using paramagnetic molecules. However, the physical observable in these searches consists in a linear combination of CP-violating interactions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Marco Ardu , Nicola Valori

Electric dipole moments constitute highly sensitive probes for CP-violating effects beyond the Standard Model. The upper limits obtained in various precision experiments can therefore be used to strongly restrict new physics models.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-27 Martin Jung

We examine the lepton dipole moments in an extension of the Standard Model (SM), which contains vector-like leptons that couple only to the second-generation SM leptons. The model naturally leads to sizable contributions to the muon $g-2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 Koichi Hamaguchi , Natsumi Nagata , Genta Osaki , Shih-Yen Tseng

We present a method for measurements of electric dipole moments on (sub)-mm size (basalt) particles levitated in an acoustic trap and centered within a plate capacitor. If an electric field is applied the particles oscillate with specific…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-07 F. Chioma Onyeagusi , Jens Teiser , Niclas Schneider , Gerhard Wurm

Electrically detected magnetic resonance (EDMR) is applied to mm size devices with implanted leads and a 50 micron square gap laid down on bulk phosphorus doped silicon. Devices with a range of phosphorus concentrations and surface types…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-23 W. D. Hutchison , P. G. Spizzirri , F. Hoehne , M. S. Brandt

A new search for a permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron is underway using ultracold neutrons produced and held in a bath of superfluid helium. Attaining the target sensitivity requires maintaining an electric field of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Long , P. D. Barnes , J. G. Boissevain , D. J. Clark , M. D. Cooper , J. J. Gomez , S. K. Lamoreaux , R. E. Mischke , S. I. Penttila

With the long-standing tension between experiment and Standard-Model (SM) prediction in the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_\mu=(g-2)_\mu/2$, at the level of 3-4$\sigma$, it is natural to ask if there could be a sizable effect in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-12 Andreas Crivellin , Martin Hoferichter , Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg

The best limit on the electron electric dipole moment (eEDM) comes from the ACME II experiment [Nature \textbf{562} (2018), 355-360] which probes physics beyond the Standard Model at energy scales well above 1 TeV. ACME II measured the eEDM…