The equivalent Electric Dipole Moment in SMEFT

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Main Authors: Ardu, Marco, Valori, Nicola
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author Ardu, Marco
Valori, Nicola
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Valori, Nicola
contents The Electric Dipole Moment of the electron (eEDM) is typically investigated in experiments using paramagnetic molecules. However, the physical observable in these searches consists in a linear combination of CP-violating interactions, rather than the eEDM alone, which is commonly referred to as the equivalent EDM of the system. Assuming the presence of new CP-odd physics from heavy degrees of freedom, we parameterize its effects within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework. We systematically compute the contributions to the full low-energy direction probed by EDM searches, focusing on leading-order effects at dimension six and one-loop level, while also discussing selected two-loop and dimension-eight contributions. We find that eEDM experiments are sensitive to a broader class of SMEFT operators than previously recognized.
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spellingShingle The equivalent Electric Dipole Moment in SMEFT
Ardu, Marco
Valori, Nicola
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
The Electric Dipole Moment of the electron (eEDM) is typically investigated in experiments using paramagnetic molecules. However, the physical observable in these searches consists in a linear combination of CP-violating interactions, rather than the eEDM alone, which is commonly referred to as the equivalent EDM of the system. Assuming the presence of new CP-odd physics from heavy degrees of freedom, we parameterize its effects within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework. We systematically compute the contributions to the full low-energy direction probed by EDM searches, focusing on leading-order effects at dimension six and one-loop level, while also discussing selected two-loop and dimension-eight contributions. We find that eEDM experiments are sensitive to a broader class of SMEFT operators than previously recognized.
title The equivalent Electric Dipole Moment in SMEFT
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21920