Atomic Physics Seminar: William Cairncross, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder CO, “Precision measurement of the electron’s electric dipole moment with trapped molecular ions”

Event time: 
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Sloane Physics Laboratory (SPL), Room 52 See map
217 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) of particles and nuclei are among the most sensitive probes for time-reversal symmetry violation, which is necessary to explain the relative abundance of matter over antimatter in the macroscopic universe. The latest experiments using precision spectroscopy of diatomic molecules provides more stringent constraints on the masses of new particles than the Large Hadron Collider. I will describe an ongoing search for the electron EDM at JILA using trapped Hafnium Fluoride molecular ions, including our first results, our plans for an order of magnitude improvement in our second generation experiment, and our vision for further improvements in a third generation experiment.

Host: David DeMille