1–6 Mar 2026
École de Physique des Houches
Europe/Paris timezone

xenon is the best atom

3 Mar 2026, 17:00
30m
Amphi (École de Physique des Houches)

Amphi

École de Physique des Houches

149 Chem. de la Côté, 74310 Les Houche https://houches.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/

Speaker

Ulrich Schmidt (Physikalisches Institut Uni Heidelberg)

Description

HeXe: The 129Xe-EDM experiment at Heidelberg. In my presentation, I will first discuss the previous experiment to search for a 129Xe-EDM located at the research center at Jülich. This will mainly focus on the 3He-129Xe co-magnetometry used and the achievable accuracy. Together with the numerically almost identical limit for a 129Xe EDM from the competing collaboration [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.143003], we achieved the smallest limit to date [https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.022505]. Building on this, I will give a status report on the Heidelberg HeXe experiment, which is still under construction, and discuss the targeted accuracy.

Presentation materials