Radiative corrections and parity nonconservation in atoms
UNSW, Sydney, AustraliaMichael Kuchiev
Cairns, 24-25 July, 2010
Radiative corrections
Roughly speaking:
1. Vacuum polarization
2. Fermion self-interaction, self-energy and vertex correction
Uehling-Serber potential (1935)
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Hesenberg-Euler problem (1935)
.Vacuum polarization is strong at small distances
How to find the correctio to
wave function at small distances?
Which parameters govern the pronblem?
Cr r
Parameters that govern wave function at small distances
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| | conventional nonrelativistic parameter
| | ( ) relativistic parameterCompton
mV r
mV r r Z
Vacuum polarizationVacuum polarization correction to PNC correction to PNC
Kuchiev, Flambaum (2002)
Sushkov (2001)Johnson,Bednyakov, Soff(2001)
Vacuum polarizationVacuum polarizationcorrection in Cscorrection in Cs
0.4%
Sushkov, Milstein (2001)
Kuchiev, Flambaum (2002)
2001-2002: what we gonna do with Standard Model?
Michael Kozlov
Victor Flambaum
Oleg Sushkov
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Alexander Milstein
Walter Johnson
The thin dotted line, thick dotted line, and solid line: self-energy corrections to the PNC amplitude
Convergence of analytical results on self-energy correctionKuchiev (2002)Kuchiev, Flambaum (2002,2003)Milstein, Sushkov, Terekhov (2002)
Estimate for PNC based on available Estimate for PNC based on available data for Finite Nuclear Size (FNS)data for Finite Nuclear Size (FNS)
The correction to the PNC amplitude is equal to the average of the corrections to the FNS energy shifts for S1/2 and P1/2 levels. Kuchiev, Flambaum (2002)
Corrections to nuclear finite size:W.R.Johnson and G.Soff, At. Data Nuc. Data Tables 33, 405 (1985).S.A.Blundell, Phys. Rev. A 46, 3762 (1992).K.T.Cheng, W.R.Johnson and J.Sapirstein, Phys. Rev A 47, 1817 (1993).[I.Lindgren, H.Persson, S.Salomonson, and A.Ynnerman, Phys. Rev. A 47, 4555 (1993).
Corrections to the PNC amplitudeThe thin dotted line analitical result , thick dotted line (from comparison with FNS, solid line is an interpolation.
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Further reading
ConclusionsConclusions
Radiative corrections to PNC in heavy Radiative corrections to PNC in heavy atoms are large, of the order of 1%.atoms are large, of the order of 1%.
Similarly are large radiative Similarly are large radiative corrections related to any corrections related to any phenomenon which manyfests itslef phenomenon which manyfests itslef at small, nuclear scale, distancesat small, nuclear scale, distances
Lesson: before daring to amend a Lesson: before daring to amend a major theory do your calculations major theory do your calculations right.right.