https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921902003
A new limit of the 129Xenon Electric Dipole Moment
1 Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
2 Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
3 Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
4 Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099 Mainz, Germany
a e-mail: ulrich.schmidt@physi.uni-heidelberg.de
Published online: 12 December 2019
We report on the first preliminary result of our 129Xe EDM measurement performed by the MIXed collaboration. The aim of this report is to demonstrate the feasibility of a new method to set limits on nuclear EDMs by investigating the EDM of the diamagnetic 129Xe atoms. In our setup, hyperpolarized 3He serves as a comagnetometer needed to suppress magnetic field fluctuations. The free induction decay of the two polarized spin species is directly measured by low noise DC SQUIDs, and the weighted phase difference extracted from these measurements is used to determine a preliminary upper limit on the 129Xe EDM.
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