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氢原子的宇称破坏

Parity violation in hydrogen revisited

R. W. Dunford, R. J. Holt

摘要:

我们重新考虑宇称破坏实验中的原子氢和氘在现有的测试的电弱相互作用,并评估是否新的实验,使用改进的实验技术,可以作出有益的贡献,测试标准模型(SM)。我们发现,如果氢的宇称实验可以完成,他们仍然是非常可取的,因为有可以忽略不计的原子物理的不确定性和弱中性电流相互作用的低能量测试需要探测新的物理超越SM。特别令人感兴趣的是在0.3%的组合误差(理论+实验)下测量氘核的核自旋无关耦合C_{1D}。这将使重原子原子宇称破坏(APV)实验在非常低的动量转移下对sin^2 θ_W的测量精度提高三倍。此外,H和D的实验可以提供其他三个电子-核子、弱中性电流耦合常数的精确测量:C_{1p}、C_{2p}和C_{2D},这些常数至今还没有被精确测定。对氘中的通用APV实验的分析表明,要测量0.3%的C_{1D},需要研制出每个超精细组分约为5 × 10^14 D(2S)s^-1的慢(77 K)亚稳态光束。来自自由电子激光(FEL)技术的UV辐射的出现可以允许产生这样的光束。

英文摘要:

We reconsider parity violation experiments in atomic hydrogen and deuterium in the light of existing tests of the Electroweak interactions, and assess whether new experiments, using improved experimental techniques, could make useful contributions to testing the Standard Model (SM). We find that, if parity experiments in hydrogen can be done, they remain highly desirable because there is negligible atomic-physics uncertainty and low energy tests of weak neutral current interactions are needed to probe for new physics beyond the SM. Of particular interest would be a measurement of the nuclear spin independent coupling C_{1D} for the deuteron at a combined error (theory + experiment) of 0.3%. This would provide a factor of three improvement to the precision on sin^2 theta_W at very low momentum transfer provided by heavy atom Atomic Parity Violation (APV) experiments. Also, experiments in H and D could provide precise measurements of three other electron-nucleon, weak-neutral-current coupling constants: C_{1p}, C_{2p},and C_{2D}, which have not been accurately determined to date. Analysis of a generic APV experiment in deuterium indicates that a 0.3% measurement of C_{1D} requires development of a slow (77K) metastable beam of ~ 5x10^14 D(2S) s^-1 per hyperfine component. The advent of UV radiation from free electron laser (FEL) technology could allow production of such a beam.

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