New search for parity violation in nonresonant neutron scattering on thorium

G. E. Mitchell, J. D. Bowman, B. E. Crawford, P. P. J. Delheij, C. M. Frankle, M. Iinuma, J. N. Knudson, L. Y. Lowie, A. Masaike, Y. Matsuda, S. I. Penttilä, H. Postma, N. R. Roberson, S. J. Seestrom, E. I. Sharapov, S. L. Stephenson, Y.-F. Yen, and V. W. Yuan
Phys. Rev. C 61, 045503 – Published 20 March 2000
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Abstract

The parity-violating longitudinal asymmetry of the neutron scattering cross section has been measured for thorium in the off-resonance energy intervals from 30 to 300 eV. The observed result of (0.5±1.6)×106 is compared with theoretical predictions.

  • Received 18 November 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.61.045503

©2000 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

G. E. Mitchell1, J. D. Bowman2, B. E. Crawford3,*, P. P. J. Delheij4, C. M. Frankle2, M. Iinuma5,†, J. N. Knudson2, L. Y. Lowie1,‡, A. Masaike5,§, Y. Matsuda5,∥, S. I. Penttilä2, H. Postma6, N. R. Roberson3, S. J. Seestrom2, E. I. Sharapov7, S. L. Stephenson1,*, Y.-F. Yen2,¶, and V. W. Yuan2

  • 1North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8202Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0308
  • 2Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
  • 3Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0308
  • 4TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 2A3
  • 5Physics Department, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-01, Japan
  • 6Delft University of Technology, IRI/ISO/TUD, 2629 JB Delft, The Netherlands
  • 7Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia

  • *Present address: Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325.
  • Present address: Hiroshima University, Hiroshima-Ken 739-8526, Japan.
  • Present address: McKinsey and Company, Atlanta, GA 30303.
  • §Present address: Fukui University of Technology, 3-6-1 Gakuen, Fukui-shi, 910-8505, Japan.
  • Present address: Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.
  • Present address: Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157.

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Vol. 61, Iss. 4 — April 2000

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