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Electric dipole moments (EDMs) have interested physicists since 1950, when it was first suggested that there was no experimental evidence that nuclear forces are symmetric under parity (P) transformation. This question was regarded as speculative because the existence of an EDM, in addition to P violation, requires a violation of time-reversal (T) symmetry. In 1964 it was discovered that the invariance under CP transformation, which combines charge conjugation (C) with parity, is violated in K-meson decays. This provided a new incentive for EDM searches. Since the combined operations of CPT are expected to leave a system invariant, breakdown of CP invariance should be accompanied by a violation of time-reversal symmetry. Thus there is a reason to expect that EDMs should exist at some level. The original neutron EDM experiments were later supplemented with checks of T invariance in atoms and molecules. These investigations are pursued now by many groups. Over the years, the upper limit on the neutron EDM has been improved by seven orders of magnitude, and the upper limit on the electron EDM obtained in atomic experiments is even more strict.
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Front Matter
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Book Title: CP Violation Without Strangeness
Book Subtitle: Electric Dipole Moments of Particles, Atoms, and Molecules
Authors: Iosif B. Khriplovich, Steve K. Lamoreaux
Series Title: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60838-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64577-8Published: 18 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-60838-4Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1864-5879
Series E-ISSN: 1864-5887
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 230
Topics: Particle and Nuclear Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics