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Limits RegistryA JILA/NIST/University of Colorado team led by Eric Cornell and Jun Ye trapped hafnium fluoride molecular ions and let electrons evolve coherently for up to 3 seconds inside the enormous intramolecular electric field. Published in Science in July 2023, the result |d_e| < 4.1x10^-30 e·cm improved the previous best bound by a factor of about 2.4 and constrains CP-violating physics beyond the Standard Model at energy scales far above the LHC.
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A JILA/NIST/University of Colorado team led by Eric Cornell and Jun Ye trapped hafnium fluoride molecular ions and let electrons evolve coherently for up to 3 seconds inside the enormous intramolecular electric field. Published in Science in July 2023, the result |d_e| < 4.1x10^-30 e·cm improved the previous best bound by a factor of about 2.4 and constrains CP-violating physics beyond the Standard Model at energy scales far above the LHC.
The smallest experimentally established upper bound on |d_e|, the electron's permanent electric dipole moment.
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Limits Registry. LR-ELECTRON-EDM-UPPER-BOUND. Tightest upper bound on the electron's electric dipole moment. 2026.