Long-range parity-nonconserving electron-nucleon interaction

Induced parity nonconserving interaction and enhancement of two-nucleon parity nonconserving forces.

Nuclear Anapole Moments and the Parity-nonconserving Nuclear Interaction

The anapole moment is a parity-odd and time-reversal-even electromagnetic moment. Although it was conjectured shortly after the discovery of parity nonconservation, its existence has not been confirmed until recently in heavy nuclear systems, which are known to be the suitable laboratories because of the manybody enhancement. By carefully identifying the nuclear-spin-dependent atomic parity non...

Parity-violating Electron Scattering and Nucleon Structure

The measurement of parity violation in the helicity dependence of electronnucleon scattering provides unique information about the basic quark structure of the nucleons. In this review, the general formalism of parity-violating electron scattering is presented, with emphasis on elastic electron-nucleon scattering. The physics issues addressed by such experiments is discussed, and the major goal...

Parity-violating two-pion exchange nucleon-nucleon interaction

We calculate in chiral perturbation theory the parity-violating two-pion exchange nucleon-nucleon potentials at leading one-loop order. At a distance of r = m−1 π ≃ 1.4 fm they amount to about ±16% of the parity-violating 1π-exchange potential. We evaluate also the parity-violating effects arising from 2π-exchange with excitation of virtual ∆(1232)-isobars. These come out to be relatively small...

Parity-violating nucleon-nucleon interaction from different approaches

Two-pion exchange parity-violating nucleon-nucleon interactions from recent effective field theories and earlier fully covariant approaches are investigated. The potentials are compared with the idea to obtain better insight on the role of low-energy constants appearing in the effective field theory approach and the convergence of this one in terms of a perturbative series. The results are illu...