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SUMMARY:The Proton EDM experiment - Alex Keshavarzi\, University of Manche
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CONTACT:Dr Paul Swallow
DESCRIPTION:The storage ring proton electric dipole moment (EDM) experimen
 t (pEDM) will be the first direct search for a proton EDM and will improve
  on the current (indirect) limit by 5 orders of magnitude. It will therefo
 re surpass the current sensitivity (set by neutron EDM experiments) to QCD
  CP-violation by 3 orders of magnitude\, making it potentially the most pr
 omising effort to solve the strong CP problem. This makes it manifestly on
 e of the most important probes for the existence of axions (with important
  consequences for dark matter searches)\, CP-violation in the Higgs sector
  and the source of the universe’s matter-antimatter asymmetry. These\, c
 oupled with a new Physics reach of O(10^3) TeV and a construction cost of 
 O(£100M)\, make it one of the low-cost/high-return proposals in particle 
 physics today. The experiment will build upon the highly successful techni
 ques of the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab\, which the UK has been a lead
 ing contributor to. In this talk\, I will motivate and describe the pEDM e
 xperiment\, and detail how the UK can play a leading role in making it a s
 uccess by building upon its vast expertise and recent achievements.
LOCATION:Ryle Seminar Room
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