Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron in a Left-Right-Symmetric Theory ofCPNonconservation

The electric dipole moment of the neutron (μₙᵉ) is calculated in the left-right-symmetic theory of Mohapatra and Pati and related to CP-nonconserving parameters of the neutral kaon system, yielding the bound ${{{μ}}ₙ}ᵉ{}{10}^{{-}22}|{{η}}_{+{-}}{-}{{η}}₀₀| e·{}cm$. Recent measurements of ${K}₀{→}2{π}$ amplitudes indicate that ${{{μ}}ₙ}ᵉ$ may well be of order ${10}^{{-}25}e·{}cm$ which is several orders of magnitude larger than the prediction of the Kobayashi-Maskawa model and only a few times smaller than the current experimental limit ${{{μ}}ₙ}ᵉ(exp)<6×{}{10}^{{-}25}e·{}cm$.