Parity Violating Energy Shifts and Berry Phases in Atoms, I

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1998-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9802317v2

Eur.Phys.J.direct D1 (1999) 2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

62 pages, 1 table, 17 figures, LaTeX, submitted to Ann. Phys. (NY), Rev. ver.: some calculations shifted into appendices, only

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We present a study of parity (P) violating contributions to the eigenenergies of stationary systems containing atoms in spatially inhomogeneous external electric fields. In this context the subtle interplay of P-violation and time reversal (T) invariance plays an important role. If the entire field configuration is chosen to exhibit chirality the energies are in general shifted by pseudoscalar contributions which change sign under a planar reflection of the field. To calculate the effects we use the standard model of elementary particle physics where the P-odd interaction arises through the exchange of Z-bosons between the quarks in the nucleus and the atomic electrons. We consider in detail hydrogen-like systems in unstable levels of principal quantum number n=2. The nominal order of P-violating effects is 10^-5...10^-9 Hz which is determined by the mixing of the 2S_1/2 and 2P_1/2 states. However we point out that it is possible to enhance the P-violating energy shifts dramatically! Instead of energy shifts linear in the P-violation parameters we get then shifts proportional to the square root of these parameters. Numerically we find such energy shifts to be of order 10^-5...1 Hz. Application of our technique to hydrogen-like atoms with a nucleus of spin I=1/2 yields P-violating energy shifts which are very sensitive to the nuclear spin dependent P-odd force, which receives a rather large contribution from the polarized strange quark density in polarized nuclei. Thus, a measurement of these energy shifts could provide an important tool to elucidate nuclear properties connected to the so called ``spin crisis''. We also present a method for treating degenerate perturbation theory which combines advantages of both, Kato's and Bloch's methods.

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