Parity‐Violation Studies with Partially Stripped Ions
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DOI10.1002/ANDP.202100561arXiv2202.01637OpenAlexW4210721817MaRDI QIDQ6092822FDOQ6092822
Authors: J. H. Richter, Dmitry Budker, Andrey Surzhykov 
Publication date: 23 November 2023
Published in: Annalen der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We present a theoretical study of photoexcitation of highly charged ions from their ground states, a process which can be realized at the Gamma Factory at CERN. Special attention is paid to the question of how the excitation rates are affected by the mixing of opposite-parity ionic levels, which is induced both by an external electric field and the weak interaction between electrons and the nucleus. In order to reinvestigate this "Stark-plus-weak-interaction" mixing, well-known in neutral atomic systems, we employ relativistic Dirac theory. Based on the developed approach, detailed calculations are performed for the and (M1 + parity-violating-E1) transitions in hydrogen- and lithium-like ions, respectively. In particular, we focus on the difference between the excitation rates obtained for the right- and left-circularly polarized incident light. This difference arises due to the parity violating mixing of ionic levels and is usually characterized in terms of the circular-dichroism parameter. We argue that future measurements of circular dichroism, performed with highly charged ions in the SPS or LHC rings, may provide valuable information on the electron-nucleus weak-interaction coupling.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01637
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