An apparatus for measuring the electron’s electric dipole moment in trapped ThF+

Abstract: 

Unresolved questions in the universe, such as the matter-antimatter asymmetry, challenge the limitations of the Standard Model. As searches for beyond-the-standard-model physics face escalating energy scale requirements in particle accelerator experiments, low energy investigations targeting symmetry-breaking properties, like the electron's electric dipole moment (eEDM), have become a key tool in probing these theories.  I present the development of an experiment to measure the eEDM in trapped polar molecular ions, which promises to have a factor of ~10x better sensitivity than our recent world’s best measurement of the electron EDM.

Meeting ID: 941 2838 8175

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