Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-06-06
Nucl.Phys. A684 (2001) 266-276
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
11 Pages LaTeX, including 5 PostScript figures. Uses esprc1.sty. Invited Paper presented at 16th International Conference on F
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0375-9474(01)00406-7
Several new proton-proton parity violation experiments are presently either being performed or are being prepared for execution in the near future. Similarly, a new measurement of the parity-violating gamma-ray asymmetry in polarized neutron capture on the proton is being developed with a ten-fold improvement over previous measurements. These experiments are intended to provide stringent constraints on the set of seven effective weak meson-nucleon coupling constants. Time-reversal-invariance non-conservation has now been unequivocally demonstrated in a direct measurement at CPLEAR. Tests may also be made of time-reversal-invariance non-conservation in systems other than the kaon system. There exist two classes of time-reversal invariance breaking interactions: P-odd/T-odd and P-even/T-odd interactions. Constraints on the first ones stem from measurements of the electric dipole moment of the neutron, while constraints on the second ones stem from the same and measurements of charge symmetry breaking in neutron-proton elastic scattering and from $K$ semi-leptonic decays. A series of precision experiments, either ongoing or being prepared, will determine the neutral weak current of the proton by measuring the parity-violating normalized asymmetry in electron-proton elastic scattering. A direct comparison between the electromagnetic and neutral weak ground state currents of the nucleon will allow a delineation of the contributions to these currents of the various quark flavours, including quarks which belong exclusively to the nucleon sea. An extension of these precision experiments to very low momentum transfer would permit stringent limits to be placed on physics beyond the standard model.
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