ERC Starting Grant · 2025
An ultracold Molecule Platform for fundamental Asymmetry Searches
The asymmetry between ordinary matter and antimatter represents one of the great mysteries in modern physics. Proposed baryogenesis scenarios require the symmetry under the combined action of charge conjugation (C) and parity (P) to be violated, at a level which is incompatible with the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. The detection of an electric dipole moment (EDM) of a non-degenerate system would directly signal CP violation beyond the SM and constitute a background free signal of new physics. The current limit on the electron EDM (eEDM) is set by atomic and molecular optics experiments exploiting the extremely high internal electric field and unpaired electrons inside polar…
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