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Theoretical overview of atomic parity violation. Recent developments and challenges

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 Atomic Physics

Abstract

Recent advances in interpreting the most accurate to-date measurement of atomic parity violation in Cs are reviewed. The inferred nuclear weak charge, Q_W = - 72.65(28)_expt (36)_theor, agrees with the prediction of the standard model at 1 sigma level. Further improved interpretation is limited by an accuracy of solving basic correlation problem of atomic structure. We report on our progress in solving this problem within the relativistic coupled-cluster formalism. We include single-, double- and triple- electronic excitations in the coupled-cluster expansion. Numerical results for energies, electric-dipole matrix elements, and hyperfine-structure constants of Cs are presented.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0608178,
  title  = {Theoretical overview of atomic parity violation. Recent developments and challenges},
  author = {Andrei Derevianko and Sergey G. Porsev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0608178},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

PAVI'06 proceedings + EJPA; refs + SM Qw fixed

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