The Role of Relativistic Many-Body Theory in Probing the Standard Model of Particle Physics

Abstract

Relativistic many-body theory has been successfully applied to a number of fundamental problems inphysics. The latest example of this being the application of this theory to the search of the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the electron.My talk will touch upon the connection between the EDM of the electron and the standard model of particle physics and also CP violation. However, its major emphasis will be on the development of aunique relativistic many-body theory and its crucial role in obtaining a new limit for the electron EDM.The implications of this limit will be discussed