The Neutron Electric Dipole Moment

Jan, 1989
62 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 4 (1989) 5011,
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 6 (1991) 1063-1066 (erratum)
Report number:
  • UH-511-703-90,
  • UH-511-666-89,
  • UM-P-90-49,
  • UM-P-89-2,
  • OZ-1989-01,
  • OZ-P-90-19

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Abstract: (WSP)
We have made a systematic study of the electric dipole moment (EDM) of neutron Dn in various models of CP violation. We find that (i) in the standard KM model with 3 families, the neutron EDM is in the range 1.4 × 10−33 ≤ |Dn| ≤ 1.6 × 10−31e.cm, (ii) the two Higgs doublet model has approximately the same value of Dn as the standard model, (iii) Dn in the Weinberg model is predicted to satisfy |Dn| > 10−25e.cm, (iv) in a class of left-right symmetric models Dn is of the order of 10−26±1e.cm, (v) in supersymmetric models, Dn is of order 10−22ϕ e.cm with ϕ being the possible phase difference of gluino mass and the gluino-quark-squark mixing matrix, (vi)the strong CP parameter θ is found to be θ < 10−9, using the present experimental limit that |Dn| < 2.6 × 10−25e.cm with 90% confidence.
  • N: ELECTRIC MOMENT
  • CP: violation
  • HIGGS PARTICLE: MULTIPLET
  • MULTIPLET: HIGGS PARTICLE
  • Kobayashi-Maskawa model
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(2) X SU(2) X U(1)
  • MODEL: HIGGS
  • SUPERSYMMETRY
  • MIXING ANGLE: (SQUARK GLUINO QUARK)
  • STRONG INTERACTION: CP