eEDM: Measurement of the electron electric dipole moment

eEDM：电子电偶极矩的测量

• 批准号: ST/H000968/1
• 负责人: Edward Hinds
• 金额: $ 6.23万
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FH000968%2F1
• 关键词: eEDM; Measurement; electron; electric; dipole

The Standard Model of elementary particle physics predicts that the electric dipole moment of the electron (eEDM) is far too small to measure. However, modern extensions to the standard model - e.g. supersymmetric theories or other theories with additional particles or fields - predict values in the range accessible to experiment. Hence, the eEDM measurement is a search for physics beyond the standard model. Since a permanent electron EDM violates time reversal symmetry, it is also deeply connected to the important issue of CP violation and the apparent asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe. We are now in the middle of making the most sensitive eEDM measurement to date, a measurement that tests theories of new physics. Our method uses laser manipulation of cold polar molecules, which may eventually be trapped at ultralow temperature. This approach has the promise of improving on the precision of the eEDM search by two orders of magnitude compared with the current best measurement. In this proposal, we are seeking support for an ongoing programme of development that will allow us to realise this promise. This offers the exciting prospect of either discovering new physics through the detection of a non-zero eEDM or of excluding proposed new physics through the absence of an eEDM.

基本粒子物理学的标准模型预测电子的电偶极矩 (eEDM) 太小而无法测量。然而，标准模型的现代扩展 - 例如超对称理论或其他具有附加粒子或场的理论 - 预测可实验范围内的值。因此，eEDM 测量是对标准模型之外的物理学的探索。由于永久电子 EDM 违反了时间反演对称性，因此它也与 CP 破坏以及宇宙中物质与反物质之间的明显不对称性等重要问题密切相关。我们现在正在进行迄今为止最灵敏的 eEDM 测量，这是一种测试新物理学理论的测量。我们的方法使用激光操纵冷极性分子，这些分子最终可能被捕获在超低温下。与当前最佳测量相比，这种方法有望将 eEDM 搜索的精度提高两个数量级。在本提案中，我们正在寻求对正在进行的开发计划的支持，这将使我们能够实现这一承诺。这提供了通过检测非零 eEDM 发现新物理或通过不存在 eEDM 排除提议的新物理的令人兴奋的前景。

项目成果

Diffusion, thermalization, and optical pumping of YbF molecules in a cold buffer-gas cell

冷缓冲气体池中 YbF 分子的扩散、热化和光泵浦

• DOI: 10.1103/physreva.83.023418
• 发表时间: 2011
• 期刊: Physical Review A
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Skoff S

Prospects for the measurement of the electron electric dipole moment using YbF

YbF测量电子电偶极矩的前景

• DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2011.06.034
• 发表时间: 2011
• 期刊: Physics Procedia
• 作者: Sauer B