Spinlab at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Michigan State University
Published February 23, 2026 | Version v1
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Heavy Pear Shaped Nuclei For Nuclear Schiff Moment Searches

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Michigan State University

Contributors

  • 1. ROR icon Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • 2. ROR icon Michigan State University
  • 3. Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
  • 4. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division
  • 5. ROR icon Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 6. ROR icon Max Planck Society

Description

This talk was delivered by me (Aiden Boyer) as an invited seminar as part of the University of Manchester's Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics (QTFP) forum on February 23rd, 2026. This talk addresses why we would be interested in using heavy, pear-shaped nuclei for nuclear Schiff moment searches, and why forming molecules with them and calibrating the properties of Protactinium-229, a hypothesized pear-shaped nucleus with possibly very low-lying nuclear structure, is a technical challenge worth addressing. This talk was 20 minutes in length with 5 minutes for questions.

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Funding

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Towards a Search for the Origin of Visible Matter Using Heavy Rare Pear-Shaped Atomic Nuclei GBMF13799