Electric Dipole Moments and the Mass Scale of New T-Violating, P-Conserving Interactions

Abstract

We consider the implications of experimental limits on the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of the electron and neutron for possible new parity-conserving (PC) time-reversal violating (TV) interactions. We show that the constraints derived from one-loop contributions to the EDM exceed previously reported two-loop limits by more than an order of magnitude and imply a lower bound on the new TVPC mass scale $\lamtv$ of 100 TeV for new TVPC strong interactions. These results imply a value of $10^{-15}$ or smaller for the ratio of low-energy TVPC matrix elements to those of the residual strong interaction.

9 pages, 2 figures. To appear in PRL

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