Published September 1993 | Version v1
Journal article

Experimental limit on parity violation in nonresonant neutron-nucleus scattering

  • 1. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
  • 2. Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (United States)
  • 3. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 (United States)
  • 4. University of Technology, P.O. Box 5046, 2600 GA, Delft (Netherlands)
  • 5. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 2769, (United States)
  • 6. TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2A3 (Canada)
  • 7. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)

Description

The parity-nonconserving longitudinal asymmetry P has been measured in nonresonant regions in 232Th for neutron energies in the range 6--86 eV. The measured value of Pnonres=(9.8±21.7)x10-6 is consistent with statistical descriptions of parity violation

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
48
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 1116-1119.
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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Collaborations
TRIPLE Collaboration.