Published August 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Time-reversal violating Schiff moment of 225Ra

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, CB3255, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3255 (United States)
  • 2. Service de Physique Nucleaire Theorique et de Physique Mathematique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles-Case Postale 229, B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)
  • 3. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University, Hoza 69, PL-00681 Warsaw (Poland)
  • 4. Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, UMR7500, CNRS-IN2P3 and Universite Louis Pasteur, F-67037 Strasbourg Cedex 2 (France)

Description

We use the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock method, allowing all symmetries to be broken, to calculate the time-reversal-violating nuclear Schiff moment (which induces atomic electric dipole moments) in the octupole-deformed nucleus 225Ra. Our calculation includes several effects neglected in an earlier work, including self-consistency and polarization of the core by the last nucleon. We confirm that the Schiff moment is large compared to those of reflection-symmetric nuclei, though ours is generally a few times smaller than recent estimates

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
68
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 025501-025501.9
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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