Category: Ra EDM
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On the Possibility of Electric Dipole Moments for Elementary Particles and Nuclei
Published on this day 75 years ago is the paper by Edward M. Purcell and Norman F. Ramsey that launched search for the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) neutrons, electrons, atomic nuclei, and other elementary particles such as muons. Ramsey recounts the story of how this paper and the first…
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Gordon Arrowsmith-Kron Defends Award Winning PhD Dissertation!
TOWARDS ELECTRIC FIELD AND ATOM NUMBER UPGRADES FOR A HIGHER SENSITIVITY SEARCH FOR THE ATOMIC ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENT OF RADIUM-225 My Introduction To Gordon’s PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation My name is Jaideep and welcome to this joyous occasion! It is an honor and a delight to introduce our combatants today.…
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First Guidance Committee Meeting: Time-Reversal Violation Using Pear Shaped Nuclei
This presentation was given to satisfy MSU’s oral examination requirements for acquiring PhD candidacy. In our graduate program, we refer to this as the “First Committee Meeting”. The task is convince your guidance committee that you understand the motivation, background, and context of your own research plan for your dissertation.…
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Towards a More Sensitive Measurement of the Atomic Electric Dipole Moment of Radium-225 – APS March Meeting 2020
Although the APS March Meeting was cancelled this year, you can view Roy Ready’s presentation. The abstract is here: http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR20/Session/P01.2 The slides are here: https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=17142 The presentation is here on YouTube:
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Steve Wins Broad of Trustees’ Scholarship Award!
The Weekly Win goes to Director’s Research Scholar Steve Fromm, who was awarded a Board of Trustees Scholarship Award! This award is given to only ~50 out of ~10,000 graduating seniors (top 0.5%!) every year who have “the highest cumulative grade-points at the close of semester prior to graduation.” Furthermore,…
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Did you find out about the award?
Click here for MSU Today writeup about Roy’s SCGSR! What does it mean to you, both personally and professionally, to receive this award? From a professional standpoint I’m thrilled to be working with and learning from world experts in atomic and nuclear physics. My advisor, Dr. Jaideep Singh (who teaches here at MSU),…
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Preprint of EDM Review Paper posted to arXiv:1710.02504
This paper has been seven years in the making and counting. I have only participated in the last two and half years of this massive undertaking and found the process to be profoundly humbling. I am tremendously relieved to see this posted online and am looking forward to all of the feedback…
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The Great High Voltage Test Station Upgrade of 2017
The weekly win is installation of the long-awaited soup cans. The significance of them might be lost on those who have not had to install HV cables with the clamshells. The short of it was that installing the cables with the plastic clamshells was torturous. The soup cans have NONE…
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Roy Ready receives a DOE SCGSR Award!
Roy Ready has been selected to receive the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award for the proposed research project, “Towards a More Sensitive Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment of Radium-225”, to be conducted at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) with our collaborator Matt…
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Six Undergrads Receive Support to Participate in CEU-DNP 2017
Six students were selected to participate in CEU-DNP this October in Pittsburgh and were offered support for lodging for their participation: Courtney Nelson (REU Student): Optical Thin Film Thickness Measurement for the Single Atom Microscope Daniel Coulter: Design of a Prototype Single Atom Microscope for Nuclear Astrophysics Evan Ryan (Honors…
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