Published September 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Energy levels and lifetimes of Gd IV and enhancement of the electron electric dipole moment

  • 1. Department of Physics, 225 Nieuwland Science Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46566 (United States)
  • 2. School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052 (Australia)

Description

We have calculated energy levels and lifetimes of 4f7 and 4f65d configurations of Gd IV using Hartree-Fock and configuration-interaction methods. This allows us to reduce significantly the uncertainty of the theoretical determination of the electron electric dipole moment (EDM) enhancement factor in this ion and, correspondingly, in gadolinium-containing garnets for which such measurements were recently proposed. Our new value for the EDM enhancement factor of Gd3+ is -2.2±0.5. Calculations of energy levels and lifetimes for Eu III are used to control the accuracy

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Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
66
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 032105-032105.6
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

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(c) 2002 The American Physical Society