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ABOV 1965

Abov, Y.G.; Krupchitsky, P.A.; Oratovsky, Y.A.;
On the Existence of a Spatial Parity Non-Conserving Internucleon Potential
Yad. Phys. 1 (1965) 479;

Abstracts
The universal four-fermion weak interaction theory predicts the existence of a space-parity non-conserving nucleon-nucleon potential. All the previous attempts to detect this potential have been unsuccessful. In our experiment we measured the asymmetry coefficient in the angular distribution of γ-quanta, emitted by the ¹¹⁴Cd^* nucleus, following the capture of polarized neutrons. The γ-quanta were registered by two identical scintillation spectrometers with NaI crystalls. They picked out γ-quanta of the ¹¹⁴Cd^* ground-state transition under the angles θ ₁ = 0^° and θ ₂ = 180^° with respect to the neutron spin. The influence of the instrumental unstability was minimized by rapid comparisons of effects induced by polarized and unpolarized neutrons, using a rotating depolarizator. Instrumental asymmetries were excluded by performing experiments with two opposite neutron spin directions and also by measurement with interchanged spectrometers. A number of control experiments was performed and their results show, that there is no neglected instrumental asymmetry. The asymmetry coefficient proved to be equal to a = -(3.7 ± 0.9)10^-4 and hence F approx 4 · 10^-7.

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Related references
More (earlier) information appears in
Y. G. Abov, P. A. Krupchitsky, and Y. A. Oratovsky, Phys. Lett. 12 (1964) 25;
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