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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 2007-05-23 C. J. Horowitz

Recent precise parity-violating electron scattering experiments on $^{48}$Ca (CREX) and $^{208}$Pb (PREX-II) provide a new insight on the formation of neutron skin in nuclei. Within the energy density functional (EDF) framework, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 Esra Yüksel , Nils Paar

We perform updated and detailed calculations of the complete NLO set of electroweak radiative corrections to parity violating e- e- --> e- e- (gamma) scattering asymmetries at energies relevant for the ultra-precise Moller experiment coming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Aleksandrs Aleksejevs , Svetlana Barkanova , Alexander Ilyichev , Vladimir Zykunov

Parity violating electron scattering can measure the neutron density of a heavy nucleus accurately and model independently. This is because the weak charge of the neutron is much larger then that of the proton. The Parity Radius Experiment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz

We analyze the degree to which parity-violating (PV) electroexcitation of the $\Delta(1232)$ resonance may be used to extract the weak neutral axial vector transition form factors. We find that the axial vector electroweak radiative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Shi-Lin Zhu , C. M. Maekawa , G. Sacco , B. R. Holstein , M. J. Ramsey-Musolf

Parity violation in elastic electron-nucleon scattering is studied with the basic goal of improving the understanding of electroweak hadronic structure with special emphasis on the strangeness content in the nucleon. Models for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-12 R. González-Jiménez , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly

Modifying the numerical codes, dispersion corrections to the beam-normal spin asymmetry which arise from low-lying transient nuclear excitations up to 30 MeV, are estimated for collision energies between 50 MeV and 1 GeV. A nonperturbative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 D. H. Jakubassa-Amundsen

Parity-violating polarized electron scattering from nucleons and nuclei provides an excellent tool to extract valuable information on nuclear and nucleon structure, as well as to determine Standard Model couplings and higher-order radiative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-15 O. Moreno , T. W. Donnelly , R. González-Jiménez , J. A. Caballero

The vector analyzing power A_n is calculated for elastic electron scattering from a variety of spin zero nuclei at energies from 14 MeV to 3 GeV. Time reversal symmetry insures that A_n vanish in first Born approximation. Therefore A_n…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E. D. Cooper , C. J. Horowitz

We report on parity-violating asymmetries in the nucleon resonance region measured using $5 - 6$ GeV longitudinally polarized electrons scattering off an unpolarized deuterium target. These results are the first parity-violating asymmetry…

The influence of nuclear isospin mixing on parity-violating elastic electron scattering is studied for the even-even, N=Z nuclei 12C, 24Mg, 28Si, and 32S. Their ground-state wave functions have been obtained using a self-consistent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-20 O. Moreno , P. Sarriguren , E. Moya de Guerra , J. M. Udias , T. W. Donnelly , I. Sick

The contributions to the electron-electron-photon vertex of two-loop electroweak corrections are calculated. The relative correction to the parity-violating asymmetry of M{\o}ller scattering for the case of 11 GeV electron scattered off the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 A. G. Aleksejevs , S. G. Barkanova , Yu. M. Bystritskiy , E. A. Kuraev , V. A. Zykunov

The neutron radius of a heavy nucleus is a fundamental nuclear-structure observable that remains elusive. Progress in this arena has been limited by the exclusive use of hadronic probes that are hindered by large and controversial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Piekarewicz

The PREX-2 and CREX experiments in Hall A at Jefferson Lab are precision measurements of parity violating elastic electron scattering from complex nuclei. One requirement was that the incident electron beam polarization, typically…

The self-energy and the vertex radiative corrections to the effect of parity nonconservation in heavy atoms are calculated analytically in orders Z alpha^2 and Z^2 alpha^3 ln(lambda_C/r_0), where lambda_C and r_0 being the Compton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. I. Milstein , O. P. Sushkov , I. S. Terekhov

The parity violating longitudinal asymmetry ${\cal A}$ is calculated for quasielastic electron scattering. We use a variety of relativistic mean field models for the response of nuclear matter and $^{12}$C at a momentum transfer of q=550…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. J. Horowitz , J. Piekarewicz

QED radiative corrections have been calculated for leptonic and hadronic variables in parity-violating elastic ep scattering. For the first time, the calculation of the asymmetry in the elastic radiative tail is performed without the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Arvieux , B. Collin , H. Guler , M. Morlet , S. Niccolai , S. Ong , J. Van de Wiele

We report the first measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry APV in the elastic scattering of polarized electrons from 208Pb from the Lead Radius Experiment PREX which ran in Hall A at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Juliette Mammei

We calculate the self-energy and the vertex radiative corrections to the effect of parity nonconservation in heavy atoms. The sum of the corrections is of the form ${\cal A}\ln(\lambda_C/r_0)+{\calB}$, where ${\cal A}$ and ${\cal B}$ are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. I. Milstein , O. P. Sushkov , I. S. Terekhov

Precision electroweak physics can provide fertile ground for uncovering new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). One area in which new physics can appear is in so-called "oblique corrections", i.e., next-to-leading order expansions of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Timothy Hobbs , Jonathan L. Rosner