Thesis
A self-consistent treatment of the parity non-conserving interaction in atoms
- Abstract:
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The Weinberg-Salam model of the weak interaction predicts that any wavefunction contains a small admixture of functions of the opposite parity. As a result, radiative transitions which would have pure magnetic dipole (M1) character in the absence of weak parity mixing interactions acquire a small component of electric dipole (E1) character, implying that atoms will show weak optical activity in proportion to the ratio of the matrix elements R = E1/M1.
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- polonsky:3:33
- Source identifiers:
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- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Plummer, E; Plummer, Edmund
- Copyright date:
- 1984
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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