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Discrete symmetries tested in high precision atomic physics experiments provide guidance to model building beyond the Standard Model (SM). Here experimental opportunities arise for searches for permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) and measurements of atomic parity violation (APV). Heavy atoms are favorable for such experiments since symmetry violating effects in atoms increase faster than the third power of the nuclear charge Z. Of special interest are isotopes of the heavy alkaline earth element radium (Z=88) since they offer large enhancement factors for EDMs and provide a new experimental road towards high precision measurements of atomic parity violation. These opportunities are exploited at the TRIμP facility at KVI, Groningen.
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Willmann, L., Jungmann, K., Onderwater, C.J.G. et al. Trapped radioactive isotopes for fundamental symmetry investigations. Hyperfine Interact 211, 39–43 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-012-0603-x
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