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First Precision Measurement of the Parity Violating Asymmetry in Cold Neutron Capture on He 3

  • M. T. Gericke
  • , S. Baeßler
  • , L. Barrón-Palos
  • , N. Birge
  • , J. D. Bowman
  • , J. Calarco
  • , V. Cianciolo
  • , C. E. Coppola
  • , C. B. Crawford
  • , N. Fomin
  • , I. Garishvili
  • , G. L. Greene
  • , G. M. Hale
  • , J. Hamblen
  • , C. Hayes
  • , E. Iverson
  • , M. L. Kabir
  • , M. McCrea
  • , E. Plemons
  • , A. Ramírez-Morales
  • P. E. Mueller, I. Novikov, S. Penttila, E. M. Scott, J. Watts, C. Wickersham

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Resumen

We report the first precision measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in the direction of proton momentum with respect to the neutron spin, in the reaction He3(n,p)3H, using the capture of polarized cold neutrons in an unpolarized active He3 target. The asymmetry is a result of the weak interaction between nucleons, which remains one of the least well-understood aspects of electroweak theory. The measurement provides an important benchmark for modern effective field theory and potential model calculations. Measurements like this are necessary to determine the spin-isospin structure of the hadronic weak interaction. Our asymmetry result is APV=[1.55±0.97(stat)±0.24(sys)]×10-8, which has the smallest uncertainty of any hadronic parity-violating asymmetry measurement so far.

Idioma originalEnglish
Número de artículo131803
PublicaciónPhysical Review Letters
Volumen125
N.º13
DOI
EstadoPublished - sept 2020

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Financiación

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Physics through Grants No. DE-FG02-03ER41258, No. DE-AC05-00OR22725, No. DE-SC0008107 and No. DE-SC0014622, the U.S. National Science Foundation Grant No. PHY-0855584, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Mexico National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) Grant No. 80444, and the UNAM research Grants (PAPIIT) No. IN111913 and No. IN109120. This research used resources of the Spallation Neutron Source of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a DOE Office of Science User Facility. We also thank Michele Viviani (INFN Pisa) for very fruitful theory discussions and Jack Thomison (ORNL) for his engineering support.

FinanciadoresNúmero del financiador
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering
Jack Thomison
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoIN109120, IN111913
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China0855584
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica80444
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear PhysicsDE-AC05-00OR22725, DE-SC0008107, DE-FG02-03ER41258, DE-SC0014622

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    • General Physics and Astronomy

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