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Explore how electric dipole moments serve as powerful tools for detecting new physics beyond the Standard Model in this conference talk. Learn about the fundamental requirement that electric dipole moments along particle spin axes violate time-reversal symmetry, and discover why most extensions to the Standard Model predict much larger EDMs than currently observed. Understand how virtual exchanges of new particles create measurable effects proportional to the inverse square of their mass, enabling current experiments to probe particles in the 5-50 TeV range—far beyond the direct capabilities of the Large Hadron Collider. Examine the remarkable progress made over the past decade in electron EDM searches through the exploitation of large electric fields in polar molecules that amplify EDM-induced energy shifts. Discover emerging technologies including laser cooling of polar molecules, assembly from ultracold atoms, production of radioactive molecules, and optical readout of spins in crystals. Investigate how these advances enable searches for analogous effects in nuclei and promise to probe time-reversal violating physics at energy scales exceeding 1 PeV, while also serving as sensitive detectors for low-mass dark matter axions.
