Publications

Precision measurement

  • Design for a fountain of YbF molecules to measure the electron's electric dipole moment
    M R Tarbutt, B E Sauer, J J Hudson and E A Hinds
    New J. Phys. 15, 053034 (2013)
  • Measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment using YbF molecules: methods and data analysis
    D. M. Kara, I. J. Smallman, J. J. Hudson, B. E. Sauer, M. R. Tarbutt, E. A. Hinds
    New J. Phys. 14, 103051 (2012)
  • Improved measurement of the shape of the electron
    J. J. Hudson, D. M. Kara, I. J. Smallman, B.E. Sauer, M. R. Tarbutt and E. A. Hinds
    Nature 473, 493 (2011)
  • Prospects for measuring the electric dipole moment of the electron using electrically trapped polar molecules
    M.R. Tarbutt, J.J. Hudson, B.E. Sauer, and E.A. Hinds
    Faraday Discuss. 142, 37 (2009)
  • Preparation and manipulation of molecules for fundamental physics tests
    M. R. Tarbutt, J. J. Hudson, B. E. Sauer, and E. A. Hinds (2008)
    arXiv:0803.0967
  • Pulsed beams as field probes for precision measurement
    J. J. Hudson, H. T. Ashworth, D. M. Kara, M. R. Tarbutt, B. E. Sauer, and E. A. Hinds
    Phys. Rev. A 76, 033410 (2007)
  • Time Reversal violation in the YbF molecule
    B. E. Sauer, S. B. Cahn, G. D. Redgrave, E. A. Hinds
    NEW DIRECTIONS IN ATOMIC PHYSICS, C. T. Whelan, R. M. Dreizler, J. H. Macek, H. R. J. Walters eds.  (Plenum, 1999)
  • Electron dipole moments
    Ed Hinds and Ben Sauer
    Physics World 10, 37–40 (1997)
  • Thesis: Tim Sumner, Progress towards a new experiment to search for the neutron EDM, Chapter 2: Magnetic Shielding (University of Sussex, 1979) Sumner Thesis

     

YbF

  • Radiative branching ratios for excited states of 174YbF: application to laser cooling
    I. J. Smallman, F. Wang, T. C. Steimle, M. R. Tarbutt, E. A. Hinds
    J. Mol. Spec. 300, 3 (2014)
  • Franck-Condon factors and the radiative lifetime of the A2Π1/2-X2Σ+ transition of ytterbium monofluoride, YbF
    X. Zhuang, A. Le, T. C. Steimle, N. E. Bulleid, I. J. Smallman, R. J. Hendricks, S. M. Skoff, J. J. Hudson, B. E. Sauer, E. A. Hinds, M. R. Tarbutt
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13. 19013 (2011)
  • Perturbed hyperfine coupling in the A2Π1/2 and [18.6]0.5 states of 174YbF
    B. E. Sauer, S. B. Cahn, M. G. Kozlov, G. D. Redgrave, E. A. Hinds
    J. Chem. Phys. 110, 8424 (1999)
  • Laser-rf double resonance spectroscopy of 174YbF in the X2Σ+ state:  Spin-rotation, hyperfine interactions, and the electric dipole moment
    B. E. Sauer, Jun Wang, E. A. Hinds
    J. Chem. Phys. 105, 7412 (1996)

Theses

Progress towards a more sensitive measurement of the electron electric dipole moment with YbF - Jack Devlin (2015)

A New Measurement of the Electron Electric Dipole Moment using Ytterbium Fluoride - Joe Smallman (2013)

Toward an electron electric dipole moment measurement using Ytterbium Fluoride Dhiren Kara (2010)

Measuring the electron elect ric d ipole moment using supersonic YbF - Paul Condylis (2006)

Production of Cold Molecular Radicals by Laser Ablation - Torben Müller (2005)

Measuring the electric dipole moment of the electron with YbF molecules - Jonathan Hudson (2001)