Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2015
Volume 60, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, April 11–14, 2015; Baltimore, Maryland
Session H3: Invited Session: Neutral-Current Parity Violation - From eV to GeV |
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Sponsoring Units: GPMFC DNP Chair: Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Holiday 2 |
Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:30AM - 9:06AM |
H3.00001: The weak mixing angle, radiative corrections and Z' bosons Invited Speaker: William Marciano |
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:06AM - 9:42AM |
H3.00002: Extracting electroweak observables from atomic parity violation: status and challenges Invited Speaker: Andrei Derevianko Atomic parity violation places powerful constraints on ``new physics'' beyond the standard model of elementary particles. While the atomic energies are of an eV scale, current results constrain new physics at the TeV mass scale. For example, by combining atomic-structure calculations with measurements in cesium atom, we constrained the mass of the so-far elusive particle - the extra Z boson (Z'). Z' are hypothesized to be carriers of the ``fifth force'' of Nature, and they are abundant in models of grand unification and string theories. In particular, we raised the lower mass limit previously coming from the direct search at the Tevatron collider. Our raised bound on the Z' mass carves out a lower-energy part of the discovery reach of the Large Hadron Collider. The extraction of electroweak observables from experimental data requires equally accurate calculations. Such calculations are incredibly complex and directly challenge what is possible with existing methods of relativistic atomic many-body physics. In addition to reviewing atomic parity violation, I will discuss the status of such calculations and present an outlook for further advances. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, April 12, 2015 9:42AM - 10:18AM |
H3.00003: Measurement of parity-violating asymmetry in deep inelastic scattering at Jefferson Lab Invited Speaker: Xiaochao Zheng Symmetry permeates nature and is fundamental to all laws of physics. One example is mirror symmetry, also called ``parity symmetry''. It implies that flipping left and right does not change the laws of physics. Laws for electromagnetism, gravity and the subatomic strong force respect parity symmetry, but the subatomic weak force does not. Historically, parity violation in electron scattering played a key role in establishing, and now testing, the Standard Model of particle physics. One particular set of the quantities accessible through measurements of parity-violating electron scattering are the vector-electron axial-vector-quark weak couplings, called $C_{2q}$'s, measured directly only once in the past 40 years. We report here on a new measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in electron-quark scattering, that has yielded a specific combination $2C_{2u}-C_{2d}$ five times more precise than the earlier result. (Here $u$ and $d$ stand respectively for the up and the down quarks.) These results are the first evidence, at more than the 95\% confidence level, that the $C_{2q}$'s are non-zero as predicted by the electroweak theory. They lead to constraints on new interactions beyond the Standard Model, particularly on those whose laws change when the quark chirality is flipped between left and right. In today's particle physics research that is focused on colliders such as the LHC, our results provide specific chirality information on electroweak theory that is difficult to obtain at high energies. In addition to deep inelastic scattering, we will report on measurement of the asymmetry in the nucleon resonance region. These data exhibit for the first time that the quark-hadron duality may work for electroweak observables at the $(10-15)\%$ level throughout the whole resonance region. At the end I will give a brief outlook on the future PVDIS program using the Jefferson Lab 12 GeV beam, which will not only provide more precise measurement of $C_{2q}$, but also for $\sin^2\theta_W$ and for studying unique features of the nucleon structure and that of the strong interaction. [Preview Abstract] |
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