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View SchemaAn Atomic Linear Stark Shift Violating P But Not T Arising From the Electroweak Nuclear Anapole Moment
| Authors | Marie-Anne Bouchiat, Claude Bouchiat |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0101098 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0101098 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s100530170177 |
Abstract
We propose a direct method of detection of the nuclear anapole moment. It is based on the existence of a linear Stark shift for alkali atoms in their ground state perturbed by a quadrupolar interaction potential and a magnetic field. This shift is proportional to the T-even pseudoscalar built from the quadrupolar potential symmetry axis, the directions of the applied electric and magnetic fields.It involves on the one hand the anisotropy of the hyperfine interaction induced by the quadrupolar interaction and, on the other,the static electric dipole moment arising from electroweak interactions inside the nucleus. The case of ground state cesium atoms trapped in a uniaxial (hcp) phase of solid helium-4 is examined. From an explicit evaluation of both the hyperfine structure anisotropy and the static P-odd T-even dipole deduced from recent empirical data about the cesium nuclear anapole moment, we predict the Stark shift. It is three times the experimental upper bound to be set on the T-odd Stark shift of free cesium atoms in order to improve the present limit on the electron EDM.
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"doi": "10.1007/s100530170177",
"title": "An Atomic Linear Stark Shift Violating P But Not T Arising From the Electroweak Nuclear Anapole Moment",
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