Weak Interactions and Eotvos Experiments

1976
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 37 (1976) 1-4

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Abstract: (APS)
We use a current-current model for weak interactions to show that the weak-interaction contribution to the ground state energies of typical nuclei is about a part in 108 of their rest masses. By comparing this contribution with the results of the recent versions of the Eötvös experiments, we conclude that weak-interaction energies obey the principle of equivalence to better than a part in 100, thus refuting claims that those experiments did not test weak-interaction effects.
  • NUCLEUS: ENERGY LEVELS
  • NUCLEON NUCLEON: WEAK INTERACTION
  • MODEL: CURRENT-CURRENT
  • GRAVITATION
  • INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS