Strangeness-Conserving Hadronic Parity Violation at Low Energies

Abstract

The parity-violating nucleon-nucleon interaction is the key to understanding the strangeness-conserving hadronic weak interaction at low energies. In this brief talk, I review the past accomplishments in and current status of this subject, and outline a new joint effort between experiment and theory that tries to address the potential problems in the past by focusing on parity violation in few-nucleon systems and using the language of effective field theory.

8 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the Second Meeting of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics, Nashville, TN, USA, Oct. 22-24, 2006