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Title: Parity-Violating Interaction Effects in the np System

Abstract

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 photo-disintegration d(gamma,n)p in the threshold region and electro-disintegration d(e,e`)np in quasi-elastic kinematics. To have an estimate of the model dependence for the various predictions, a number of different, latest-generation strong-interaction potentials--Argonne v18, Bonn 2000, and Nijmegen I--are used in combination with a weak-interaction potential consisting of pi-, rho-, and omega-meson exchanges--the model known as DDH. The complete bound and scattering problems in the presence of parity-conserving, including electromagnetic, and parity-violating potentials is solved in both configuration and momentum space. The issue of electromagnetic current conservation is examined carefully. We find large cancellations between the asymmetries induced by the parity-violating interactions and those arising from the associated pion-exchange currents. In the np capture, the model dependence is nevertheless quite small, because of constraints arising through the Siegert evaluation of the relevant E1 matrix elements. In quasi-elastic electron scattering these processes are found to be insignificant compared to the asymmetry produced by gamma-Z interference on individual nucleons.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
OSTI Identifier:
814897
Report Number(s):
JLAB-THY-03-166; DOE/ER/40150-2539; nucl-th/0404082
TRN: US0304399
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-84ER40150
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Resource Relation:
Other Information: No journal information given for this preprint; PBD: 3 Sep 2003
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; ASYMMETRY; CAPTURE; CONFIGURATION; DEUTERONS; ELASTIC SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; MATRIX ELEMENTS; NEUTRONS; NUCLEONS; PARITY; PROBES; ROTATION; SCATTERING; SPIN

Citation Formats

Schiavilla, R, Carlson, J A, and Paris, M. Parity-Violating Interaction Effects in the np System. United States: N. p., 2003. Web.
Schiavilla, R, Carlson, J A, & Paris, M. Parity-Violating Interaction Effects in the np System. United States.
Schiavilla, R, Carlson, J A, and Paris, M. 2003. "Parity-Violating Interaction Effects in the np System". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/814897.
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title = {Parity-Violating Interaction Effects in the np System},
author = {Schiavilla, R and Carlson, J A and Paris, M},
abstractNote = {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 photo-disintegration d(gamma,n)p in the threshold region and electro-disintegration d(e,e`)np in quasi-elastic kinematics. To have an estimate of the model dependence for the various predictions, a number of different, latest-generation strong-interaction potentials--Argonne v18, Bonn 2000, and Nijmegen I--are used in combination with a weak-interaction potential consisting of pi-, rho-, and omega-meson exchanges--the model known as DDH. The complete bound and scattering problems in the presence of parity-conserving, including electromagnetic, and parity-violating potentials is solved in both configuration and momentum space. The issue of electromagnetic current conservation is examined carefully. We find large cancellations between the asymmetries induced by the parity-violating interactions and those arising from the associated pion-exchange currents. In the np capture, the model dependence is nevertheless quite small, because of constraints arising through the Siegert evaluation of the relevant E1 matrix elements. In quasi-elastic electron scattering these processes are found to be insignificant compared to the asymmetry produced by gamma-Z interference on individual nucleons.},
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year = {Wed Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2003},
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