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Do Nucleons and Electrons Have Electric Dipole Moments?

MAR 01, 1968
Physics Today

Searches for an electric dipole moment of the neutron, proton and electron are under way at several laboratories. T. D. Lee and Lev Landau first pointed out that if such a moment exists, it would be direct evidence for violation of time‐reversal invariance.

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