David Kawall Abstract

David Kawall
University of Massachusetts

"Prospects for measuring the EDM of the proton in a storage ring"

Abstract : A permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of a fundamental particle would violate parity and time-reversal symmetries. Non-zero EDMs are predicted in the standard model (SM), but are unobservably small. Many models of physics beyond the SM predict dramatically enhanced EDMs, and evidence of this new physics is possibly within reach of the next generation of EDM searches. An experiment to reduce the limits on the EDM of the proton by more than 3 orders of magnitude to 10^{-29} e-cm in a storage ring is described.