See Overview ERC Grant "srEDM" Physics Motivation Objective International Activities JEDI Collaboration Introductory Literature Downloads Achievements See Overview Achievements Feasibility Study First detection of collective oscillations of a stored deuteron beam with an amplitude close to the quantum limit EDM Precursor Run II Beam-based alignment at the Cooler Synchrotron COSY as a prerequisite for an electric dipole moment measurement EDM Precursor Run I A new beam polarimeter at COSY to search for elect
The existence of Electric Dipole Moments (EDMs) is tightly bound to the same mechanisms that also generate the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe and an observation of an EDM would help to solve this problem.
The effect to be observed is tiny and the corresponding experiments are challenging. In this ERC Advanced Grant Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany), RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and the University of Ferrara (Italy) receive a total funding of 2.4 Mio. € over a period of 5 years to develop the necessary new technologies and to perform a first proof-of-principle measurement at the COoler SYnchrotron COSY in Jülich.