Combined effect of coherent Z exchange and the hyperfine interaction in the atomic parity-nonconserving interaction
- Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 (United States)
The nuclear spin-dependent parity-nonconserving (PNC) interaction arising from a combination of the hyperfine interaction and the coherent, spin-independent, PNC interaction from Z exchange is evaluated using many-body perturbation theory. For the 6s{sub 1/2}-7s{sub 1/2} transition in {sup 133}Cs, we obtain a result that is about 40% smaller than that found previously by Bouchiat and Piketty [Phys. Lett. B 269, 195 (1991)]. Applying this result to {sup 133}Cs leads to an increase in the experimental value of nuclear anapole moment and exacerbates differences between constraints on PNC meson coupling constants obtained from the Cs anapole moment and those obtained from other nuclear parity violating experiments. Nuclear spin-dependent PNC dipole matrix elements, including contributions from the combined weak-hyperfine interaction, are also given for the 7s{sub 1/2}-8s{sub 1/2} transition in {sup 211}Fr and for transitions between ground-state hyperfine levels in K, Rb, Cs, Ba{sup +}, Au, Tl, Fr, and Ra{sup +}.
- OSTI ID:
- 20636519
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Vol. 67, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.67.062106; (c) 2003 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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