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Atomic parity violation and the HERA anomaly

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-09 v2

Abstract

We show that the two scenarios able to explain the HERA anomaly --- a new leptoquark coupling or a new contact interaction --- predict new contributions to atomic parity violation. These corrections are sufficiently large and different that a feasible reduction in the dominant atomic theory uncertainty could give some hint in favour of one of the two scenarios.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9706298,
  title  = {Atomic parity violation and the HERA anomaly},
  author = {Leonardo Giusti and Alessandro Strumia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9706298},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages. Reference added, PDG value of weak charge revised

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