SSP2012 - 5th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics

Electric dipole moments (EDMs) break parity and time-reversal (T) symmetry and, by the CPT-theorem, CP-symmetry. If measured they are unambigious signs of new physics, since CP-violation in the quark mixing matrix predict EDMs orders of magnitude away from current experimental limits. The SM also contains the QCD vacuum angle (the theta term) whose value is unknown but strongly limited by...

I review the impressive recent progress towards the present state of the art in the understanding and application of perturbative QCD to Standard Model processes.

A brief review of the impact of searches for electric dipole moments of nucleons, atoms and molecules on fundamental sources of CP (or T) violation in nature. The focus will be on the use of effective field theory to disentangle the constraints on different fundamental CP-odd sources, and the implications of direct LHC exclusion limits on possible new physics at or near the electroweak scale.