Neutron Electric Dipole Moment and Tensor Charges from Lattice QCD

• Published in: Physical review letters Vol. 115; no. 21; p. 212002
• Main Authors: Bhattacharya, Tanmoy, Cirigliano, Vincenzo, Gupta, Rajan, Lin, Huey-Wen, Yoon, Boram
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Physical Society (APS) 17-11-2015
• Subjects: atomic and nuclear physics; Dipole moment; disconnected quark loops; Electric dipoles; Elementary Particles; Extrapolation; Lattices; Mathematical analysis; Models, Theoretical; Neutrons; Nuclear Physics; nucleon charges; PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Quantum chromodynamics; quark EDM; Quarks; split SUSY; Tensors; Thermodynamics
• ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.212002

We present lattice QCD results on the neutron tensor charges including, for the first time, a simultaneous extrapolation in the lattice spacing, volume, and light quark masses to the physical point in the continuum limit. We find that the "disconnected" contribution is smaller than the statistical error in the "connected" contribution. Our estimates in the modified minimal subtraction scheme at 2 GeV, including all systematics, are g_{T}^{d-u}=1.020(76), g_{T}^{d}=0.774(66), g_{T}^{u}=-0.233(28), and g_{T}^{s}=0.008(9). The flavor diagonal charges determine the size of the neutron electric dipole moment (EDM) induced by quark EDMs that are generated in many new scenarios of CP violation beyond the standard model. We use our results to derive model-independent bounds on the EDMs of light quarks and update the EDM phenomenology in split supersymmetry with gaugino mass unification, finding a stringent upper bound of d_{n}<4×10^{-28} e cm for the neutron EDM in this scenario.