Experimental search for the electron electric dipole moment with laser cooled francium atoms

• DOI: 10.1007/s10751-014-1100-1
• Publication Date: 2014-12-01T13:58:18Z
• Authors: T. Inoue; S. Ando; T. Aoki; H. Arikawa; S. Ezure; K. Harada; T. Hayamizu; T. Ishikawa; M. Itoh; K. Kato; H. Kawamura; A. Uchiyama; T. Aoki; K. Asahi; T. Furukawa; A. Hatakeyama; K. Hatanaka; K. Imai; T. Murakami; H. S. Nataraj; T. Sato; Y. Shimizu; T. Wakasa; H. P. Yoshida; A. Yoshimi; Y. Sakemi
• Keywords: Nuclear and High Energy Physics; 0103 physical sciences; Physical and Theoretical Chemistry; Condensed Matter Physics; 7. Clean energy; 01 natural sciences; Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

A laser cooled heavy atom is one of the candidates to search for permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) electron due enhancement mechanism and its long coherence time. The francium (Fr) factory has been constructed perform EDM at Cyclotron Radioisotope Center, Tohoku University. present status Fr production measurement system presented.