Polarized electron-Nucleus Scattering and Parity Violating Neutral Current Interactions

Aug, 1975
24 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 12 (1975) 3575,
  • Phys.Rev.D 13 (1976) 2164 (erratum)
Report number:
  • CO-2271-64

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Abstract: (APS)
The polarization asymmetry in the scattering of polarized electrons from nuclei coming from the interference between electromagnetic interactions and parity-violating neutral-current interactions is discussed. It is shown how measurements of this asymmetry in various elastic and inelastic electron-nucleus scatterings can be used to determine specific spin and isospin terms in the hadronic neutral current. A specially interesting case would be a measurement in a 0+ →0− excitation, in which the asymmetry is 100 times larger than usual because the electromagnetic matrix element involves two-photon exchange.
  • LEPTON NUCLEUS: INTERACTION
  • INTERACTION: LEPTON NUCLEUS
  • ELECTRON NUCLEUS: ELASTIC SCATTERING
  • ELASTIC SCATTERING: ELECTRON NUCLEUS
  • ELECTRON NUCLEUS: DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING
  • DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING: ELECTRON NUCLEUS
  • BEAM: POLARIZATION
  • POLARIZATION: BEAM
  • POLARIZATION: SYMMETRY
  • POLARIZATION: MEASUREMENT