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Parity violation in high-energy proton-proton scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-08-07 v1

Abstract

A new approach is proposed to describe the parity violation in the process of scattering of a polarized proton by a proton at high energies. It is shown that in the tree approximation the P-odd amplitude of proton-proton scattering is substantially smaller than the P-odd amplitude in proton-neutron scattering. The main source of P-odd asymmetry in proton-proton scattering is radiative corrections due to the charge-exchange strong interaction. We predict that the asymmetry in the inelastic cross section is substantially less than the asymmetry in the elastic cross section.

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@article{arxiv.2001.06964,
  title  = {Parity violation in high-energy proton-proton scattering},
  author = {A. I. Milstein and N. N. Nikolaev and S. G. Salnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06964},
  year   = {2020}
}

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8 pages, 1 figure