Perspective: Atomic Parity Violation and the Nuclear Anapole Moment

1997/04/24 by W. C. Haxton
Physics and Astronomy · #nucl-th #hep-ph

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published as Science 275 (1997) 1753-1754 · 6 pages, no figures

arxiv created 1997/04/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

I discuss in qualitative terms the implications of the recent measurement by C. S. Wood et al. of the hyperfine dependence of atomic parity violation in 133Cs. The derived anapole moment constrains the strength of hadronic parity violation.

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