Parity violating radiative emission of neutrino pair in heavy alkaline earth atoms of even isotopes

Abstract

Metastable excited states ${}^3{P}_2,{}^3{P}_0$ of heavy alkaline earth atoms of even isotopes are studied for parity violating (PV) effects in radiative emission of neutrino pair (RENP). PV terms arise from interference between two diagrams containing neutrino pair emission of valence spin current and nuclear electroweak charge density proportional to the number of neutrons in nucleus. This mechanism gives large PV effects, since it does not suffer from the suppression of 1/(electron mass) usually present for non-relativistic atomic electrons. A controllable magnetic field is crucial to identify RENP process by measuring PV observables. Results of PV asymmetries under the magnetic field reversal and the photon circular polarization reversal are presented for an example of Yb atom.

18 pages, 13 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1312.6758

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