An experiment to search for an electric dipole moment in the 
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M. A. Player; P. G.H. Sandars

doi:10.1088/0022-3700/3/12/007

An experiment to search for an electric dipole moment in the ³ P ₂ metastable state of xenon

M. A. Player^*, P. G.H. Sandars

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University of Oxford

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Abstract

The authors describe an atomic beam resonance experiment to search for an electric dipole movement in the ³ P ₂ metastable state in xenon. The experiment avoids the ' nu *E' difficulty of earlier work by using an atomic state which has a high differential polarizability. Small residual effects are cancelled by comparison between xenon and krypton. The result is interpreted to give a limit on the electric dipole moment of the electron mod d _e mod =(0.7+or-2.2)*10 ^-24 e cm at 90% confidence level.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1620-1635
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
Volume	3
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/3/12/007
Publication status	Published - Dec 1970

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An experiment to search for an electric dipole moment in the ³ P ₂ metastable state of xenon. / Player, M. A.; Sandars, P. G.H.
In: Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics, Vol. 3, No. 12, 12.1970, p. 1620-1635.

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