Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1999

Department 1

Physics

Abstract

Parity nonconservation (PNC) was studied in p-wave resonances in Ag by measuring the helicity dependence of the neutron total cross section. Transmission measurements on natural Ag were performed in the energy range 32 to 422 eV with the time-of-flight method at the Manuel Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A total of 15 p-wave neutron resonances were studied in 107Ag and ninep-wave resonances in 109Ag. Statistically significant asymmetries were observed for eight resonances in 107Ag and for four resonances in109Ag. An analysis treating the PNC matrix elements as random variables yields a weak spreading width of Γw=(2.67-1.21+2.65)×10-7 eV for107Ag and Γw=(1.30-0.74+2.49)×10-7 eV for 109Ag.

Required Publisher's Statement

Copyright held by American Physical Society. First published as LY Lowie et al, Parity Nonconservation in Neutron Resonances in 107,109Ag, Physical Review C, 59:2, 1119–1130, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.59.1119.

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