Effects of nuclear parity violation in deuterium atoms and elastic electron-deuteron scattering

Journal Article · Sun Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1981 · Phys. Rev., C; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.23.1001· OSTI ID:6595124

Henley, E M; Hwang, W P

The effects of nuclear parity violation on atomic deuterium parity violation experiments and elastic electron-deuteron scattering are treated. Since the hadronic isoscalar axial neutral weak current is very small in the Weinberg-Salam theory, the effects of nuclear parity violation are important in parity violation measurements which test the vector coupling to the electron and the axial (isoscalar) coupling to the deuteron. Such measurements have been proposed as a test of the Weinberg-Salam theory. A consistent treatment of the effect requires a modification of the impulse approximation to restore gauge invariance. It is found that parity nonconservation caused by nuclear parity violation is of the same order of magnitude as that caused by the anomaly-induced isoscalar axial neutral weak current or as that due to radiative corrections.

• Research Organization: Institute for Nuclear Theory, Department of Physics, FM-15, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
• OSTI ID: 6595124
• Journal Information: Phys. Rev., C; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev., C; (United States) Vol. 23:3; ISSN PRVCA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
ALGEBRAIC CURRENTS
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
CORRECTIONS
COUPLING CONSTANTS
CURRENTS
DEUTERIUM
DEUTERIUM TARGET
ELASTIC SCATTERING
ELECTRON REACTIONS
FINE STRUCTURE
FUNCTIONS
GAUGE INVARIANCE
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
IMPULSE APPROXIMATION
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
ISOTOPES
LEPTON REACTIONS
LIGHT NUCLEI
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NEUTRAL CURRENTS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
P INVARIANCE
PARTICLE MODELS
RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS
SCATTERING
STABLE ISOTOPES
TARGETS
UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
WAVE FUNCTIONS
WEAK NEUTRAL CURRENTS
WEINBERG-SALAM GAUGE MODEL