Published July 15, 1995 | Version v1
Journal article

Study of parity and time-reversal violation in neutron-nucleus interactions

  • 1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
  • 2. Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0308 (United States)
  • 3. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0305 (United States)
  • 4. TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2A3 (Canada)
  • 5. Meiji College of Oriental Medicine (Japan)
  • 6. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8202 (United States)
  • 7. Kyoto University, Department of Physics, Kyoto 606-01 (Japan)
  • 8. National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, 1-1, Oho, Tsukuba 305 (Japan)
  • 9. University of Technology, P. O. Box 5046, 2600 GA, Delft (Netherlands)

Description

The parity and time-reversal symmetries can be studied in neutron-nucleus interactions. Parity non-conserving asymmetries have been observed for many p-wave resonances in a compound nucleus and measurements were performed on several nuclei in the mass region of A∼100 and A∼230. The statistical model of the compound nucleus provides a theoretical basis for extracting mean-squared matrix elements from the experimental asymmetry data, and for interpreting the mean-squared matrix elements. The constraints on the weak meson-exchange couplings calculated from the compound-nucleus asymmetry data agree qualitatively with the results from few-body and light-nuclei experiments. The tests of time-reversal invariance in various experiments using thermal, epithermal, and MeV neutrons are being developed

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
339
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 120-135.
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
International symposia on high energy spin physics and polarization phenomena in nuclear physics.
Dates
15-22 Sep 1994.
Place
Bloomington, IN (United States).

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-9409103--.