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Time reversal violating magnetic quadrupole moment in heavy deformed nuclei

B. G. C. Lackenby and V. V. Flambaum
Phys. Rev. D 98, 115019 – Published 11 December 2018

Abstract

The existence of permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) and magnetic quadrupole moments (MQMs) violate both time reversal invariance (T) and parity (P). Following the CPT theorem they also violate combined CP symmetry. Nuclear EDMs are completely screened in atoms and molecules while interaction between electrons and MQMs creates atomic and molecular EDMs which can be measured and used to test CP-violation theories. Nuclear MQMs are produced by the nucleon-nucleon T, P-odd interaction and by nucleon EDMs. In this work we study the effect of enhancement of the nuclear MQMs due to the nuclear quadrupole deformation. Using the Nilsson model we calculate the nuclear MQMs for deformed nuclei of experimental interest and the resultant MQM energy shift in diatomic molecules of experimental interest YbF173, HfF177,179+, TaN181, TaO+181, ThO229 and ThF+229.

  • Received 15 September 2018
  • Corrected 8 March 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.115019

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.

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Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Nuclear PhysicsAtomic, Molecular & OpticalParticles & FieldsInterdisciplinary Physics

Corrections

8 March 2019

Correction: The two equations in Eq. (12) contained minor typographical errors and have been fixed.

Authors & Affiliations

B. G. C. Lackenby1 and V. V. Flambaum1,2

  • 1School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
  • 2Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany

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Vol. 98, Iss. 11 — 1 December 2018

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