Speaker
Dr
Ben Sauer
(Imperial College London)
Description
It is well known that the existence of a permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of a fundamental particle such as the neutron or electron violates both parity and time reversal symmetries. Many theories of physics beyond the standard model predict EDMs which should be observable by a new generation of experiments. For the electron, this new generation almost entirely involves measurements using paramagnetic molecules. I will review recent work and discuss the prospects for future measurements of the electron EDM. I will illustrate the talk with examples from the experiment using YbF at Imperial College London.
Primary author
Dr
Ben Sauer
(Imperial College London)
