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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…

We have measured parity-violating asymmetries in elastic electron-proton scattering over the range of momentum transfers 0.12 < Q^2 < 1.0 GeV^2. These asymmetries, arising from interference of the electromagnetic and neutral weak…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The G0 Collaboration

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-07 A. I. Milstein , N. N. Nikolaev , S. G. Salnikov

We have measured the parity-violating electroweak asymmetry in the elastic scattering of polarized electrons from protons. Significant contributions to this asymmetry could arise from the contributions of strange form factors in the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 HAPPEX Collaboration

I start by reviewing existing $\vec{p}p$ measurements with particular emphasis on the recent 221 MeV $\vec{p}p$ measurement at TRIUMF which permitted the weak meson-nucleon coupling constants $h^{pp}_\rho$ and $h^{pp}_\omega$ to be…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 W. D. Ramsay

We report on a measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in the scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons on unpolarized protons at a $Q^2$ of 0.230 (GeV/c)^2 and a scattering angle of \theta_e = 30^o - 40^o. Using a large…

We report the first measurement of the parity violating single-spin asymmetries for midrapidity decay positrons and electrons from $W^{+}$ and $W^{-}$ boson production in longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=500…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-02-16 The STAR Collaboration , M. M. Aggarwal

Parity-violating elastic electron-nucleon scattering at low momentum transfer allows one to access the nucleon's weak charge, the vector coupling of the $Z$-boson to the nucleon. In the Standard Model and at tree level, the weak charge of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Mikhail Gorchtein , Hubert Spiesberger

Nuclear parity violation is studied with polarized neutrons in the photodisintegration of the deuteron at low energies. A pionless effective field theory with di-baryon fields is used for the investigation. Hadronic weak interactions are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 J. W. Shin , S. -I. Ando , C. H. Hyun , S. W. Hong

The recent discrepancy between proton charge radius measurements extracted from electron-proton versus muon-proton systems is suggestive of a new force that differentiates between lepton species. We identify a class of models with gauged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-28 Brian Batell , David McKeen , Maxim Pospelov

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

We analyze the dispersion correction to elastic parity violating electron-proton scattering due to $\gamma Z$ exchange. In particular, we explore the theoretical uncertainties associated with modeling contributions of hadronic intermediate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-22 Mikhail Gorchtein , C. J. Horowitz , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

The longitudinal asymmetry induced by parity-violating (PV) components in the nucleon-nucleon potential is studied in the charge-exchange reaction 3He(n,p)3H at vanishing incident neutron energies. An expression for the PV observable is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 M. Viviani , R. Schiavilla , L. Girlanda , A. Kievsky , L. E. Marcucci

We report the most precise measurement to date of a parity-violating asymmetry in elastic electron-proton scattering. The measurement was carried out with a beam energy of 3.03 GeV and a scattering angle <theta_lab>=6 degrees, with the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The HAPPEX Collaboration

We report on a precision measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in fixed target electron-electron (Moller) scattering: A_PV = -131 +/- 14 (stat.) +/- 10 (syst.) parts per billion, leading to the determination of the weak mixing angle…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-03-19 SLAC E158 Collaboration , P. L. Anthony

The Qweak experiment at Jefferson Lab aims to make a 4% measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in elastic scattering at very low $Q^2$ of a longitudinally polarized electron beam on a proton target. The experiment will measure the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Gregory S. Mitchell

We reconsider parity violation experiments in atomic hydrogen and deuterium in the light of existing tests of the Electroweak interactions, and assess whether new experiments, using improved experimental techniques, could make useful…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. W. Dunford , R. J. Holt

We report a new measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in elastic electron scattering from the proton at backward scattering angles. This asymmetry is sensitive to the strange magnetic form factor of the proton as well as electroweak…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-08-19 SAMPLE collaboration , D. T. Spayde

We analyze the parity-violating (PV) components of the analyzing power in elastic electron-proton scattering and discuss their sensitivity to the strange quark contributions to the proton weak form factors. We point out that the component…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Moscani , B. Mosconi , P. Ricci

We calculate the parity-nonconserving longitudinal asymmetry in the elastic $\vec{p} p$ scattering at the energies where experimental data are available. In addition to the standard one-meson exchange weak potential, the variation of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 C. H. Hyun , C. -P. Liu , B. Desplanques