SSP2012 - 5th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics

Permanent Electric Dipole Moments (EDMs) of fundamental particles violate both time invariance and parity. Assuming the CPT theorem, this implies CP violation. The CP violation of the Standard Model is orders of magnitude too small to be observed experimentally in EDMs in the foreseeable future. It is also way too small to explain the asymmetry in abundance of matter and...

The standard model of particle physics predicts that the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the electron is very nearly zero. A non-zero value would violate time reversal symmetry. Many extensions to the standard model predict an electron EDM just below current experimental limits, thus there is great interest in new experiments and in improving current experimental precision. I...