Abstract
Metastable excited states P32,P30 of heavy alkaline earth atoms of even isotopes are studied for parity violating (PV) effects in radiative emission of neutrino pair (RENP). PV terms arise from interference between two diagrams containing neutrino pair emission of valence spin current and nuclear electroweak charge density proportional to the number of neutrons in nucleus. This mechanism gives large PV effects, since it does not suffer from the suppression of 1/(electronmass) usually present for nonrelativistic atomic electrons. A controllable magnetic field is crucial to identify RENP process by measuring PV observables. Results of PV asymmetries under the magnetic field reversal and the photon circular polarization reversal are presented for an example of Yb atom.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 013022 |
| Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jul 28 2014 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)