Fully self-consistent calculations of nuclear Schiff moments

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We calculate the Schiff moments of the nuclei 199Hg and 211Ra in completely self-consistent odd-nucleus mean-field theory by modifying the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov code HFODD.

• We allow for arbitrary shape deformation, and include the effects of nucleon dipole moments alongside those of a CP-violating pion-exchange nucleon-nucleon interaction.
• The results for 199Hg differ significantly from those of previous calculations when the CP-violating interaction is of isovector character.