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Parity violating electron nucleus scattering is a clean and powerful tool for measuring the spatial distributions of neutrons in nuclei with unprecedented accuracy. Parity violation arises from the interference of electromagnetic and weak…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 C. J. Horowitz , S. J. Pollock , P. A. Souder , R. Michaels

Radiative corrections to the parity-violating asymmetry measured in elastic electron-proton scattering are analyzed in the framework of the Standard Model. We include the complete set of one-loop contributions to one quark current…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Barkanova , A. Aleksejevs , P. G. Blunden

The Q-weak experiment at Hall C of Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has made the first direct measurement of the weak charge of the proton, Qweak(p), through a precision measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in elastic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-18 Nuruzzaman

Currently running and forthcoming precision neutrino oscillation experiments aim to unambiguously determine the neutrino mass ordering, the charge-parity violating phase in the lepton sector and the possible existence of physics Beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-10 Afroditi Papadopoulou

The $Q_{weak}$ Collaboration has completed a challenging measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in elastic electron-proton ($\vec{e}$p) scattering at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). The initial…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-10-02 Manolis Kargiantoulakis

We study the impact of a leptophobic Z' gauge boson on the C_{1q} and C_{2q} parameters that describe the low-energy, parity-violating electron-quark neutral current interaction. We complement previous work by including the penguin-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-27 Martín González-Alonso , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

This note presents constraints on Standard Model parameters using published and preliminary precision electroweak results measured at the electron-positron colliders LEP and SLC. The results are compared with precise electroweak…

We study in an effective operator approach how the effects of new physics from various scenarios that contain an extra $Z'$ neutral gauge boson or doubly charged scalars, can affect and thus be tested by the precision polarized M\o{}ller…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 We-Fu Chang , John N. Ng , Jackson M. S. Wu

The Qweak experiment aims to measure the weak charge of the proton to 4% via the parity-violating asymmetry ($\sim$-200 ppb) in elastic e+p scattering. The scattering rate is largely influenced by five beam parameters: horizontal position…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Nuruzzaman

Measurement of the neutral weak vector form factors of the nucleon provides unique access to the strange quark content of the nucleon. These form factors can be studied using parity-violating electron scattering. A comprehensive program of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-10-29 D. S. Armstrong , R. D. McKeown

We present an overview of the electroweak physics program of the SLD experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). A data sample of 550K Z0 decays has been collected. This experiment utilizes a highly polarized electron beam,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Woods

A Compton polarimeter has been installed in Hall A at Jefferson Laboratory. This letter reports on the first electron beam polarization measurements performed during the HAPPEX experiment at an electron energy of 3.3 GeV and an average…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-27 M. Baylac , E. Burtin , C. Cavata , S. Escoffier , B. Frois , D. Lhuillier , F. Marie , J. Martino , D. Neyret , T. Pussieux , P. Y. Bertin , C. W. de Jager , J. Mitchell

We report measurements of the parity-conserving beam-normal single-spin elastic scattering asymmetries $B_n$ on $^{12}$C and $^{27}$Al, obtained with an electron beam polarized transverse to its momentum direction. These measurements add an…

Measurements of parity-violating longitudinal analyzing powers (normalized asymmetries) in polarized proton-proton scattering provide a unique window on the interplay between the weak and strong interactions between and within hadrons.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 W. T. H. van Oers , for E497 collaboration

The potential for probing extra neutral gauge boson mediators ($Z^\prime$) from low-energy measurements is comprehensively explored. Our study mainly focuses on $Z^\prime$ mediators present in string-inspired $E_6$ models and left-right…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Omar G. Miranda , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Mariam Tórtola , José W. F. Valle

The semi-exclusive averaged reduced cross sections for (anti)neutrino charged current quasi-elastic scattering on carbon, oxygen, and argon are analyzed within the relativistic distorted wave impulse approximation. We found that these cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 A. V. Butkevich

The parity-violating electron scattering community has made tremendous progress over the last twenty five years in their ability to measure tiny asymmetries of order 100 parts per billion (ppb) with beam-related corrections and systematic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-10-17 Robert Michaels

We outline the recent results on the two-loop electroweak contributions to the electron-electron scattering cross sections and asymmetries. Although the two-loop corrections are strongly suppressed relative to the one-loop corrections, they…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Aleksejevs , S. Barkanova , V. Zykunov

Several parity violating left-right asymmetries in M\o ller electron-electron and muon-muon scattering are considered in the context of the electroweak standard model at tree level in fixed target and collider experiences. We show that in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Montero , V. Pleitez , M. C. Rodriguez

The kinematical difference between the description of radiative effects for fixed $Q^2$ vs a fixed scattering angle in the elastic lepton-proton ($lp$)-scattering is discussed. The technique of calculation as well as explicit expressions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-20 A. Afanasev , A. Ilyichev