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The general expressions for parity violation observables in elastic scattering of polarized and/or unpolarized electrons from unpolarized deuterons are given and are numerically evaluated for the kinematics of SAMPLE, PVA4 and G0…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Ahmad , S. K. Singh , H. Arenhoevel

The electroweak interaction at the level of quarks and gluons are well understood from precision measurements in high energy collider experiments. Relating these fundamental parameters to Hadronic Parity Violation in nuclei however remains…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-10 Thorsten Kurth , Evan Berkowitz , Enrico Rinaldi , Pavlos Vranas , Amy Nicholson , Mark Strother , Andre Walker-Loud

Two-pion exchange parity-violating nucleon-nucleon interactions from recent effective field theories and earlier fully covariant approaches are investigated. The potentials are compared with the idea to obtain better insight on the role of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Desplanques , C. H. Hyun , S. Ando , C. -P. Liu

We study the impact of nuclear structure uncertainties on a measurement of the weak charge of $^{12}\mathrm{C}$ at the future MESA facility in Mainz. Information from a large variety of nuclear models, accurately calibrated to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Matteo Cadeddu , Nicola Cargioli , Jens Erler , Mikhail Gorchtein , Jorge Piekarewicz , Xavier Roca-Maza , Hubert Spiesberger

Recently at JLab using polarised electron beam on unpolarised deuteron target measurements have been performed for the parity violating asymmetry($A_{PV}$) and there are future plans to measure this asymmetry using various nuclear targets.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 H. Haider , M. Sajjad Athar , S. K. Singh , I. Ruiz Simo

Parity violating (PV) as well as parity and time-reversal invariance violating (PTRIV) effects are enhanced a million times in neutron reactions near p-wave compound resonances. We present the calculation of such effects using a statistical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 V. V. Flambaum , A. J. Mansour

We investigate parity-violating observables in the np system, including the longitudinal asymmetry and neutron-spin rotation in np elastic scattering, the photon asymmetry in np radiative capture, and the asymmetries in deuteron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 R. Schiavilla , J. Carlson , M. Paris

In this work we formulate the reaction theory of parity violation in compound nuclear states using Feshbach's projection operator formalism. We derive in this framework a complete set of terms that contribute to the longitudinal asymmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 N. Auerbach , V. Spevak

Measurements of circular polarization of $\gamma$-ray emitted from neutron capture reactions provide valuable information for nuclear physics studies. The spin and parity of excited states can be determined by measuring the circular…

Polarized beam gamma p Compton scattering provides a theoretically clean way to extract the isovector parity violating pion-nucleon coupling constant $h_{\pi NN}^{(1)}$. This channel is more tractable experimentally than the recently…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Thomas D. Cohen , Chung Wen Kao

The enhancement of the parity-violating asymmetry in the vicinity of $p$-wave compound nuclear resonances was observed for a variety of medium-heavy nuclei. The enhanced parity-violating asymmetry can be understood using the $s$-$p$ mixing…

After almost five decades of study of parity violation in hadronic systems, the determination of the seven weak meson-nucleon couplings is still incomplete. Whereas parity violation in nuclear systems is complicated by the intricacies of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-13 Willem T. H. van Oers

In the framework of the left-right symmetric model the CP-parity violation has been studied in heavy Majorana neutrino decays $N\rightarrow e^{\mp} \mu^{\pm} n$. The numerical estimates of CP-asymmetry for different masses of neutrino and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 R. A. Alanakyan , H. M. Asatrian , A. N. Ioannisian , S. A. Chatrchyan

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

A key question in understanding the structure of nucleons involves the role of sea quarks in their ground state electromagnetic properties such as charge and magnetism. Parity-violating electron scattering, when combined with determination…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 E. J. Beise

TRIUMF experiment 497 has measured the parity violating longitudinal analyzing power, A_z, in pp elastic scattering at 221.3 MeV incident proton energy. This paper includes details of the corrections, some of magnitude comparable to A_z…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 A. R. Berdoz , TRIUMF E497 Collaboration

The parity-violating (PV) nucleon-nucleon ($N\!N$) interaction in the three-nucleon system is investigated using pionless effective field theory ($\mathrm{EFT}(/\!\!\!\pi)$). This work shows that a next-to-leading order (NLO) PV three-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-15 Jared Vanasse

The interpretation of future precise experiments on atomic parity violation in terms of parameters of the Standard Model could be hampered by uncertainties in the atomic and nuclear structure. While the former can be overcome by measurement…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Q. Chen , P. Vogel

We report the first precision measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in the direction of proton emission with respect to the neutron spin, in the reaction $^{3}\mathrm{He}(\mathrm{n},\mathrm{p})^{3}\mathrm{H}$, using the capture of…

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