Experimental Limit to the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron
Abstract
An experimental measurement of the electric dipole moment of the neutron by a neutron-beam magnetic resonance method is described. The result of the experiment is that the electric dipole moment of the neutron equals the charge of the electron multiplied by a distance D=(-0.1+/-2.4)×10-20 cm. Consequently, if an electric dipole moment of the neutron exists and is associated with the spin angular momentum, its magnitude almost certainly corresponds to a value of D less than 5×10-20 cm.
- Publication:
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Physical Review
- Pub Date:
- October 1957
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRev.108.120
- Bibcode:
- 1957PhRv..108..120S