ProbingCPviolation with the deuteron electric dipole moment

We present an analysis of the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the deuteron as induced by CP-violating operators of dimension 4, 5 and 6 including ${\theta }_{\mathrm{QCD}},$ the EDMs and color EDMs of quarks, four-quark interactions and the Weinberg operator. We demonstrate that the precision goal of the EDM Collaboration’s proposal to search for the deuteron EDM, $(1\mathrm{}–3)\times {10}^{-27}e\mathrm{cm},$ will provide an improvement in sensitivity to these sources of one to two orders of magnitude relative to the existing bounds. We consider in detail the level to which CP-odd phases can be probed within the minimal supersymmetric standard model.