Dipole moments in Thomas—Fermi—Dirac and Thomas—Fermi theories

Dipole Moments in Thomas-Fermi-Dirac and Thomas-Fermi Theories

Lepton Dipole Moments

From the famous experiments of Stern and Gerlach to the present, measurements of magnetic dipole moments, and searches for electric dipole moments of “elementary” particles have played a major role in our understanding of sub-atomic physics. In this talk I discuss the progress on measurements and theory of the magnetic dipole moments of the electron and muon. I also discuss a new proposal to se...

Neutrino CP phases and lepton electric dipole moments in supersymmetric theories

We analyse the dependence of the electron electric dipole moment (EDM) on neutrino CP violating phases in the context of supersymmetric models. We start by studying the supersymmetric contributions to the lepton EDM and lepton flavour violation processes τ → μγ and μ → eγ, in the framework of the mass insertion approximation, showing that, due to the large neutrino mixing, μ → eγ leads to sever...

Charge non-conservation, dequantisation, and induced electric dipole moments in varying-α theories

We note that in extensions of the Standard Model that allow for a varying fine structure constant, α, all matter species, apart from right-handed neutrinos, will gain an intrinsic electric dipole moment (EDM). In a large subset of varying-α theories, all such particle species will also gain an effective electric charge. This charge will in general not be quantised and can result in macroscopic ...

Dipole and Quadrupole Moments in Image Processing

This paper proposes an algorithm for image processing, obtained by adapting to image maps the definitions of two well-known physical quantities. These quantities are the dipole and quadrupole moments of a charge distribution. We will see how it is possible to define dipole and quadrupole moments for the gray-tone maps and apply them in the development of algorithms for edge detection. 1. Introd...