The Electron EDM and EDMs in Two-Higgs-Doublet Models

Abstract

Electric dipole moments constitute highly sensitive probes for CP-violating effects beyond the Standard Model. The upper limits obtained in various precision experiments can therefore be used to strongly restrict new physics models. However, relating the experimental information to parameters of a specific model is complicated by the presence of various sources for EDMs as well as large theory uncertainties in some of the relevant matrix elements. In this article, we address both issues for the EDMs of heavy paramagnetic systems, where it is possible to include subleading contributions, thereby model-independently extracting the electron EDM. We furthermore use expressions for the presently phenomenologically relevant EDMs with conservative estimates for the theoretical uncertainties to place constraints on CP-violating phases in the context of Two-Higgs-Doublet models.