Speaker
Dr
Stephanie Roccia
(CSNSM)
Description
At the Paul Scherrer Institute, a collaboration of 14 institutions is conducting an experiment to search for a permanent neutron electric dipole moment.
The experiment uses ultracold neutrons (UCN) stored in vacuum at room temperature.
This technique provided the last (and best) limit by the RAL/Sussex/ILL collaboration in 2006: 2.9 × 10-26 e cm (90% C.L.).
We aim at improving this limit using an upgrade of the same apparatus.
The data taking is ongoing and an overview of the sensitivity will be given together with a status report on the control of the systematic effects.
In particular I will discuss some of the most recent developments and their impact on the sensitivity and conclude with the perspectives of this
collaborative work.
Author
Dr
Stephanie Roccia
(CSNSM)
Co-author
on behalf of the nEDM collaboration (PSI) -
