Nedm Coordination Tender

ScopeAbstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research. This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission but may be because it included sensitive information such as personal details. The neutron electric dipole moment experiment seeks to understand one of the big mysteries facing particle physics and cosmology today why is the Universe made of matter rather than anti-matter It is believed that the Big Bang started off in a condition of almost pure energy and as this energy turned into matter the laws of physics that we currently understand would have produced almost equal amounts of matter and anti-matter. But astronomical observations yield the clear conclusion that the Universe consists almost entirely of matter. This means that there must be laws of physics that treat matter and anti-matter differently such new laws of physics would also violate time-reversal invariance i.e. they would make the interactions of particles different depending on whether time is moving forwards or backwards. Laws of physics which have these properties usually induce a static electric dipole moment to the neutron or nEDM and hence a search for an nEDM is a search for the physics that could explain the matter-anti-matter asymmetry. Notes 1. These projects are not awards in themselves. They are a mechanism to capture outputs common to the project usually but not exclusively publications. 2. Each project has a number of contributing research teams based at multiple institutions. The research teams are funded through the institutes consolidated grants. 3. It is not possible to quantify the proportion of effort that each research team contributes to the project.