The electric dipole moment of the neutron in the Kobayashi-Maskawa model

A possible mechanism for producing a neutron electric dipole moment to order G_F² in the Kobayashi-Maskawa model is proposed; the consequent order of magnitude of the dipole moment would be 10^?30 cm in units of the electric charge.     

A model for a large electric dipole moment of the neutron

It is shown that a mixing of ordinary quarks and mirror quarks could induce a large electric dipole moment, d_n, for the neutron. For an about 1% mixing the prediction is |d_n| ≅ 10⁻²⁵ e cm. Recent results of two experimental groups, one at the Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute and the other at the Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, indicate that the dipole moment may have such a high value.     

On some properties of the neutron in the statistical model

Using the statistical model to arrive at |ψ(r)|² the square modulus of theS state wavefunction of the neutron, the electric dipole moment |d _n ^e | of the neutron as well as its baryon number violating lifetime have been estimated. The baryon asymmetry of the universe depending on |d _n ^e | has also been studied in this context.     

The neutron electric dipole moment in the standard KM model

We compute the electric dipole moment of the neutron in the standard KM model, including the meson-baryon intermediate states which dominate the result in the SU(3) × SU(3) chiral limit, and find 1.4×10⁻³¹ e cm⩾|D_n|⩾9.9×10⁻³³ e cm.     

CP violation in gauge theories and the electric dipole moment of the neutron

A nonvanishing contribution to the neutron electric dipole moment in CP-violating gauge theories of the weak interactions, arising from interaction of the photon with two-quark subsystems of the three-bound-quark neutron system, is calculated. In the Kobayashi-Maskawa model the resulting value of the moment is estimated as O(10^?32) e cm; however, strong interaction corrections (gluonic radiative corrections) give quark moment contributions which may be numerically larger (possibly 10^?30±1 e cm). Either case clearly distinguishes gauge-sector CP violation from Higgs-sector CP violation which typically gives a neutron moment of order 10^?24 e cm.     

Neutron optics of noncentrosymmetric crystals: New possibility of searches for the neutron electric dipole moment and CP-violating forces

New neutron-optics effects, which were predicted and discovered quite recently in noncentrosymmetric crystals and which can be used to study the fundamental properties of the neutron, are discussed. In particular, strong electric fields of strength up to 10⁸ or 10⁹ V/cm may act in such crystals on the neutron, and this provides new possibilities for measuring the neutron electric dipole moment (EDM) by the crystal-diffraction method. It also becomes possible to perform searches for pseudomagnetic forces acting on neutrons and violating CP invariance. For the range of such forces that satisfies the condition λ _A < 10^?5 cm, the best constraints on the product of the scalar and pseudoscalar coupling constants have already been obtained for the interaction induced by the exchange of a light pseudoscalar (axion-like) particle. The present-day status and prospects of neutron-optics crystal-diffraction experiments aimed at searches for the neutron EDM and pseudomagnetic forces are considered.     

The neutron electric dipole moment as a test of the superweak interaction theory

Theoretical calculations of the neutron electric dipole moment D_n are reviewed for various theories of CP violation. It is shown that for the superweak interaction theory D_n is less than 10^?29e · cm in contrast to values of 10^?23 to 10^?24 predicted by many but not all milliweak theories. It is concluded that prospective measurements of D_n may provide decisive evidence against or significant evidence in favour of the superweak theory.     

Contribution of the triangle graphs to the neutron electric dipole moment

In the Kobayashi-Maskawa model we compute a new contribution to the neutron electric dipole moment induced byCP violating flavour-changing transitions of the typess→d+gluon+γ through heavy quark loops. This contribution, essentially given by the triangle anomaly graph, is by itself gauge invariant. We obtain from this mechanismD _n /e=3.10^?32 cm, one order of magnitude below our previous estimate from usual penguin diagram contributions.     

Schiff moment of the mercury nucleus and the proton dipole moment

The Schiff moment of the ¹⁹⁹Hg nucleus is calculated using finite range P-and T-violating weak nucleon-nucleon interaction. Both the contributions of the P-and T-odd interaction and of internal nucleon electric dipole moments to the Schiff moment of ¹⁹⁹Hg are calculated. The contribution of the proton electric dipole moment is obtained via core-polarization effects treated in the framework of RPA with effective residual interactions. We derive a new upper bound |d _p |<5.4×10^?24e cm for the proton electric dipole moment.     

PNPI differential EDM spectrometer and latest results of measurements of the neutron electric dipole moment

In this work, the double chamber magnetic resonance spectrometer of the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI) designed to measure the neutron electric dipole moment (EDM) is briefly described. A method for long storage of polarized ultracold neutrons in a resonance space with a superposed electric field collinear to the leading magnetic field is used. The results of the measurements carried out on the ILL reactor (Grenoble, France) are interpreted as the upper limit of the value of neutron EDM |d_n| < 5.5 × 10^–26 e cm at the 90% confidence level.     

The neutron electric dipole moment in the standard model with four generations

We calculate the neutron electric dipole moment in the standard model with four generations. In the most favourable case, our result, 2.4×10⁻³²e cm, is larger than the three-generation result by a factor of 20.     

CP noninvariance and the possibility of a sizable neutron electric dipole moment

The electric dipole moment of the neutron will be measured to a precision of 10^?25 e-cm in the near future. We explore a new theoretical possibility that P and CP noninvariance leads to a sizable electric dipole moment. We calculate an electric dipole moment of about 10^?25 e-cm. In this phenomenological theory, we calculate CP-violating observables in non-leptonic decays from theK ⁰ ? \(\bar K^0 \) ,Λ ⁰ ?Λ ⁰ andK ⁺?K ^? systems. In connection with CP noninvariance, the possible observable occurrence of ΔS=2 decays is discussed. We calculate possible branching ratios; in particular that forΞ ⁰ → π^? p can be as high as about 10^?6. The possible existence of a weakly interacting, neutral scalar boson, which violates P and CP in the course of its propagation as a virtual particle, is considered.     

“Artificial vacuum” for T-violation experiment

We point out the possible use of matrix isolation spectroscopy in experimental tests of fundamental physics. As a concrete example we show how this technique might be applied to measuring the T-violation electron electric dipole moment d_e. We estimate that a dipole moment could be detected down to d_e ∼ 6 × 10⁻²⁸e cm, in comparison to the current limit of d_e < 10⁻²⁴e cm.     

Strong <Emphasis Type="Italic">CP</Emphasis> violation and the neutron electric dipole form factor

We calculate the neutron electric dipole form factor induced by the CP-violating θ term of QCD within a perturbative chiral quark model which includes pion and kaon clouds. On this basis, we derive the neutron electric dipole moment and the electron—neutron Schiff moment. From the existing experimental upper limits on the neutron electric dipole moment, we extract constraints on the θ parameter and compare our results with other approaches. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Program of Fundamental-Interaction Research for the Ultracold-Neutron Source at the the WWR-M Reactor

The use of ultracold neutrons opens unique possibilities for studying fundamental interactions in particles physics. Searches for the neutron electric dipole moment are aimed at testing models of CP violation. A precise measurement of the neutron lifetime is of paramount importance for cosmology and astrophysics. Considerable advances in these realms can be made with the aid of a new ultracold-neutron (UCN) supersource presently under construction at Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute. With this source, it would be possible to obtain an UCN density approximately 100 times as high as that at currently the best UCN source at the high-flux reactor of the Institute Laue–Langevin (ILL, Grenoble, France). To date, the design and basic elements of the source have been prepared, tests of a full-scale source model have been performed, and the research program has been developed. It is planned to improve accuracy in measuring the neutron electric dipole moment by one order of magnitude to a level of 10^?27 to 10^?28e cm. This is of crucial importance for particle physics. The accuracy in measuring the neutron lifetime can also be improved by one order of magnitude. Finally, experiments that would seek neutron–antineutron oscillations by employing ultracold neutrons will become possible upon reaching an UCN density of 10³ to 10⁴ cm^?3. The current status of the source and the proposed research program are discussed.     

Electric dipole moment and chromoelectric dipole moment of the top quark inSU(3)C×SU(3)L×U(1)X model

We show that inSU(3) _C ×SU(3) _L ×U(1) _X model, the leading contribution to the electric and chromolelectric dipole moment of the top quark is due to the one-loop diagrams which come from exchanging the charged and neutral Higgs bosons. The dipole moments are typically of the order of 10^?19 e-cm and 10^?19 g-cm respectively, for the values of relative phases of the vev's such that CP violation is maximal. From an experimental point of view, theq ² dependence of dipole moment form factors is given.     

The quark electric dipole moment and the induced θ-term in the Kobayashi-Maskawa model

Closed expressions are obtained for the quark electric dipole moment and the induced θ-term in the Kobayashi-Maskawa model in the approximation G²σ_s.     

Electric dipole moment of Dirac fermionic dark matter

The direct limit of electric dipole moment and direct searches for dark matter by electric dipole interaction are investigated with including the electromagnetic nuclear form factor, in case that the dark matter candidate is a Dirac particle. The electric dipole moment of dark matter constrained by direct searches must be lower than 7×¹⁰−22e cm for dark matter mass of 100 GeV to satisfy the current experimental exclusion limits at XENON10 and CDMS II. The CP violation of electric dipole moment and the dark matter discovery by electric dipole interaction in the future are considered.     

Search for a parity violation induced by neutral currents in the 6S–7S transition of atomic cesium

Parity violating, time-reversal invariant, weak neutral currents can induce an electric dipole transition moment, E₁^p.v., between atomic states of same parity. We report here on the preliminary results of an experiment designed to measure E₁^p.v. in the 6S–7S transition of atomic cesium, using a polarization effect characteristic of the interference of E₁^p.v. with the electric dipole transition moment E₁^ind. induced by a d.c. electric field. At a 90% confidence level we find the upper limit: |E₁^p.v.| < 2.0 × 10^?9|e|a₀. As a consequence the coupling constant of the electron-nucleon interaction involving the product of an axial electronic neutral current by a vector nucleonic one must be less than 44 G_F.     

A limit on scalar-pseudoscalar weak neutral currents from a new interpretation of atomic electric dipole measurements

We show that the existing measurements of electric dipole moment of heavy atoms exclude a weak electron-nucleon interaction involving the product of a pseudoscalar and a scalar neutral current with a coupling constant larger than 10^?3G_F.