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Long-range parity non-conserving electron-nucleon interaction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-08-31 v3 Atomic Physics

Abstract

As known, electron vacuum polarization by nuclear Coulomb field produces Uehling potential with the range /2mec\hbar/2m_e c. Similarly, neutrino vacuum polarization by ZZ boson field produces long range potential G2/r5\sim G^2/r^5 with the large range /2mνc\hbar/2m_{\nu}c. Attempts to measure parity-conserving part of this potential produced only limits on this potential which are several orders of magnitude higher than the standard model predictions. We show that parity non-conserving (PNC) part of the neutrino exchange potential WL(r)W_L(r) gives a significant fraction of the observed PNC effects. Mixed ZγZ-\gamma electron vacuum polarization produces PNC potential with range /2mec\hbar/2m_e c, which exceeds the range of the weak interaction by five orders of magnitude. We calculate contribution of the long-range PNC potentials to the nuclear spin independent and nuclear spin dependent PNC effects. The cases of the single-isotope PNC effects and the ratio of PNC effects in different isotopes are considered for Ca, Cs, Ba, Sm, Dy, Yb, Hg, Tl, Pb, Bi, Fr, Ra atoms and ions. Contributions of the long-range PNC potentials (\sim1\%) significantly exceed experimental error (0.35\%) for PNC effect in Cs.

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@article{arxiv.2205.02569,
  title  = {Long-range parity non-conserving electron-nucleon interaction},
  author = {V. A. Dzuba and V. V. Flambaum and P. Munro-Laylim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.02569},
  year   = {2022}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure

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