Optically pumped Cs magnetometers enabling a high-sensitivity search for the neutron electric dipole moment
C. Abel, S. Afach, N. J. Ayres, G. Ban, G. Bison, K. Bodek, В. М. Бондар, E. Chanel, P.-J. Chiu, Christopher Crawford, Z. Chowdhuri, M. Daum, S. Emmenegger, L. Ferraris-Bouchez, M. Fertl, B. Franke, W. C. Griffith, Z. D. Grujić, L. Hayen, V. Hélaine, N. Hild, M. Kasprzak, Y. Kermaïdic, K. Kirch, P. Knowles, H.-C. Koch, S. Komposch, P. Koss, A. Kozela, J. Krempel, B. Lauss, T. Lefort, Y. Lemière, A. Leredde, A. Mtchedlishvili, P. Mohanmurthy, M. Musgrave, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, D. Pais, A. S. Pazgalev, F. M. Piegsa, E. Pierre, G. Pignol, P. N. Prashanth, G. Qúeḿener, M. Rawlik, D. Rebreyend, D. Ries, S. Roccia, D. Rozpędzik, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, A. Schnabel, N. Severijns, R. Tavakoli Dinani, Jacob Thorne, A. Weis, E. Wursten, G. Wyszyński, J. Zejma, G. Zsigmond
Abstract
Details on the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment conducted at the Paul Scherrer Institute using an array of sixteen laser-pumped scalar cesium magnetometers are presented. An improvement of 35% of the statistical nEDM sensitivity is reported.