An experiment to search for an electric dipole moment in the3P2metastable state of xenon
- 1 December 1970
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 3 (12), 1620-1635
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/3/12/007
Abstract
The authors describe an atomic beam resonance experiment to search for an electric dipole movement in the 3P2 metastable state in xenon. The experiment avoids the ' nu *E' difficulty of earlier work by using an atomic state which has a high differential polarizability. Small residual effects are cancelled by comparison between xenon and krypton. The result is interpreted to give a limit on the electric dipole moment of the electron mod de mod =(0.7+or-2.2)*10-24 e cm at 90% confidence level.Keywords
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