Electroweak Nuclear Properties from Single Molecular Ions in a Penning Trap
Atomic Physics
2024-07-22 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We present a novel technique to probe electroweak nuclear properties by measuring parity violation (PV) in single molecular ions in a Penning trap. The trap's strong magnetic field Zeeman shifts opposite-parity rotational and hyperfine molecular states into near degeneracy. The weak interaction-induced mixing between these degenerate states can be larger than in atoms by more than twelve orders of magnitude, thereby vastly amplifying PV effects. The single molecule sensitivity would be suitable for applications to nuclei across the nuclear chart, including rare and unstable nuclei.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2310.11192,
title = {Electroweak Nuclear Properties from Single Molecular Ions in a Penning Trap},
author = {Jonas Karthein and Silviu-Marian Udrescu and Scott B. Moroch and Ivana Belosevic and Klaus Blaum and Anastasia Borschevsky and Yuly Chamorro and David DeMille and Jens Dilling and Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz and Nick R. Hutzler and Lukáš F. Pašteka and Ryan Ringle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.11192},
year = {2024}
}
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8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table