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Article: Neutron measurements and the weak nucleon-nucleon interaction.
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- Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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The weak interaction between nucleons remains one of the most poorly-understood sectors of the Standard Model. A quantitative description of this interaction is needed to understand weak interaction phenomena in atomic, nuclear, and hadronic systems. This paper summarizes briefly what is known about the weak nucleon-nucleon interaction, tries to place this phenomenon in the context of other studies of the weak and strong interactions, and outlines a set of measurements involving low energy neutrons which can lead to significant experimental progress.
Key words: anapole moment; effective field theory; few-body systems; neutral currents; parity violation; QCD; ...