New Search for Parity Violation in Nonresonant Neutron Scattering on Thorium

Authors

J D. Bowman, Los Alamos National LaboratoryFollow
Bret E. Crawford, Gettysburg CollegeFollow
P P J. Delheij, TRIUMFFollow
C M. Frankle, Los Alamos National LaboratoryFollow
M IInuma, Kyoto UniversityFollow
J N. Knudsen, Los Alamos National LaboratoryFollow
L Y. Lowie, North Carolina State UniversityFollow
A Masaike, Kyoto UniversityFollow
Y Matsuda, Kyoto UniversityFollow
S I. Penttila, Los Alamos National LaboratoryFollow
H Postma, Delft University of TechnologyFollow
N R. Roberson, Duke UniversityFollow
S J. Seestrom, Los Alamos National LaboratoryFollow
E I. Sharapov, Joint Institute for Nuclear ResearchFollow
Sharon L. Stephenson, Gettysburg CollegeFollow
Y-F Yen, Los Alamos National LaboratoryFollow
V W. Yuan, Los Alamos National LaboratoryFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2000

Department 1

Physics

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)×10^-6 is compared with theoretical predictions.

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Recommended Citation

Bowman, J. D., Crawford, B. E., Delheij, P. P.J., Frankle, C. M., IInuma, M., Knudsen, J. N., Lowie, L. Y., Masaike, A., Matsuda, Y., Penttila, S. I., Postma, H., Roberson, N. R., Seestrom, S .J., Sharapov, E. I., Stephenson, S., Yen, Y-F., & Yuan, V. W. (2000) New search for parity violation in nonresonant neutron scattering on thorium. Physical Review C, 61(045503). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.61.045503

Required Publisher's Statement

Copyright held by American Physical Society. First published as GE Mitchell et al, New search for parity violation in nonresonant neutron scattering on thorium, Physical Review C, 61, 045503, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.61.045503.