P- and T-Violating Lagrangians in Chiral Effective Field Theory and Nuclear Electric Dipole Moments

Abstract

A scheme to derive hadronic interactions induced by effective multi-quark terms is presented within the framework of chiral effective field theory. It is employed to work out the list of parity- and time-reversal-symmetry-violating hadronic interactions that are relevant for the computation of nuclear contributions to the electric dipole moments of the hydrogen-2, helium-3 and hydrogen-3 nuclei. We also derive the scattering and Faddeev equations required to compute electromagnetic form factors in general and electric dipole moments in particular.

Comments: 69 pages, 1 figure, revised version, accepted for publication in Annals of Physics