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Matrix Elements between Nuclear Compound States and Dynamical Enhancement of the Weak Interaction

Nuclear Theory 2009-01-23 v1

Abstract

A method to calculate the mean squared matrix element of weak interaction between compound states is developed. The result is expressed in terms of matrix elements of the nucleon-nucleon strong and weak interactions times the Fermi distribution functions at finite temperature. Numerical calculations for 233^{233}Th are in excellent agreement with recent measurements of parity nonconservation effects in neutron capture. In fact, our calculations prove that the factor of dynamical enhancement (ratio of compound-nucleus effect to single-particle one) really exceeds 100, thus making it unnesessary to assume a value of the weak constant bigger than standard one (g108ϵ1÷4g\simeq 10^{8} \epsilon \sim 1\div 4).

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9706014,
  title  = {Matrix Elements between Nuclear Compound States and Dynamical Enhancement of the Weak Interaction},
  author = {V. V. Flambaum and O. K. Vorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9706014},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, Revtex3, no figures

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