Abstract
We present a comprehensive mean-field calculation of the Schiff moment of the nucleus , the quantity that determines the static electric-dipole moment of the corresponding atom if time-reversal () invariance is violated in the nucleus. The calculation breaks all possible intrinsic symmetries of the nuclear mean field and includes, in particular, both exchange and direct terms from the full finite-range -violating nucleon-nucleon interaction, and the effects of short-range correlations. The resulting Schiff moment, which depends on three unknown -violating pion-nucleon coupling constants, is much larger than in , the isotope with the best current experimental limit on its atomic electric-dipole moment.
- Received 22 March 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.232502
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