Effect of nuclear quadrupole moment on parity nonconservation in atoms

Abstract

Nuclei with spin $I\ge 1$ have a weak quadrupole moment which leads to tensor contribution to the parity non-conserving interaction between nuclei and electrons. We calculate this contribution for Yb${}^{+}$, Fr and Ra${}^{+}$ and found it to be small. In contrast, in many lanthanides (e.g., Nd, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Pr, Sm) and Ra close levels of opposite parity lead to strong enhancement of the effect making it sufficiently large to be measured. Another possibility is to measure the PNC transitions between the hyperfine components of the ground state of Bi. Since nuclear weak charge is dominated by neutrons this opens a way of measuring quadrupole moments of neutron distribution in nuclei.

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