Experimental Approaches to Understand Reaction Mechanisms Relevant to Discrete Symmetry Violation in Compound Nuclear Process
Speaker: Hirohiko M. Shimizu
Affiliation: Nagoya University
Date: Mar 19th
Abstract:
Detailed understanding of neutron absorption reactions helps us to understand the extremely large parity violating effects and evaluate the possibility to extend to other enhancement of other symmetry breakings. Currently, the parity breaking effect is understood as a result of the interference between parity-unfavored partial amplitudes of the compound nuclear process, which is referred to as "s-p mixing". We discuss experimental approaches that simplify the compound-nucleus process and distinguish as much as possible between the entrance channel boundary, exit channel boundary, and compound-nucleus state. Critical technologies for these experiments, such as neutron and nuclear spin manipulation and neutron detection, will be overviewed.