[Submitted on 30 Dec 2016] (cross-list from hep-ph)
Improved limits on the hadronic and semi-hadronic CP violating parameters and role of a dark force carrier in the electric dipole moment of Hg
Combining the recently reported electric dipole moment (EDM) of Hg atom due to breaking of parity and time-reversal symmetries with the improved relativistic atomic calculations, precise limits on the tensor-pseudotensor (T-PT) electron-nucleus (e-N) coupling coefficient and the nuclear Schiff moment (NSM) interactions are determined. Using these limits with the nuclear calculations, we infer limits on the EDMs of neutron and proton as and , respectively, and on the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) parameter and the combined up- and down- quark chromo-EDMs as and , respectively. These are the best limits till date to probe new sources of CP violation beyond the standard model (SM) from a diamagnetic atom. Role of considering a capable many-body method to account the electron correlation effects to all orders for inferring the above limits has been highlighted. From this analysis, constraints on the T-PT e-N coupling coefficient with a large range of mass of a possible dark matter carrier between the atomic electrons and nucleus are given.
- Comments:
- 2 tables and 4 figures; Accepted for Phys. Rev. D
- Subjects:
- High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
- arXiv:
- 1612.09371 [pdf]