Parity-Violating Neutron Spin Rotation in a Liquid Parahydrogen Target |
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Authors: | Diane M. Markoff |
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Affiliation: | North Carolina State University, Department of Physics, Raleigh, NC |
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Abstract: | Our understanding of hadronic parity violation is far from clear despite nearly 50 years of theoretical and experimental progress. Measurements of low-energy parity-violating observables in nuclear systems are the only accessible means to study the flavor-conserving weak hadronic interaction. To reduce the uncertainties from nuclear effects, experiments in the few and two-body system are essential. The parity-violating rotation of the transverse neutron polarization vector about the momentum axis as the neutrons traverse a target material has been measured in heavy nuclei and few nucleon systems using reactor cold neutron sources. We describe here an experiment to measure the neutron spin-rotation in a parahydrogen target (n-p system) using pulsed cold-neutrons from the fundamental symmetries beam line at the Spallation Neutron Source under construction at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. |
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Keywords: | cold neutrons neutron spin rotation nucleon-nucleon interaction parity-violation spallation neutron source weak hadronic interaction |
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