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Measurement of the polarization of positive muons produced in high-energy antineutrino interactions

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Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields

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The question whether scalar-type interactions contribute to weak interactions at large momentum transfer has been investigated by a measurement of the longitudinal polarization of positive muons produced in charged-current interactions of high-energy antineutrinos with iron. At an average momentum transfer <Q 2>=4 GeV2 the muon spin is found to be oriented forward with respect to the muon momentum vector, with an average polarization of 1.10±0.24, consistent with positive helicity. A limit on scalar contributions of σs, p/σtot <7% at the 95% confidence level can be deduced. A search for violation of time reversal invariance which could manifest itself by a polarization component perpendicular to the muon production plane gave a limit of σtv/σtot <16% (95% c.l.). It is concluded that the weak leptonic charged current retains its dominant vector and axial vector structure at large momentum transfers.

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  1. G. Barbiellini

    Present address: INFN, LN, Frascati, Italy

  2. A. Capone

    Present address: Istituto di Fisica, University of Rome and INFN Sezione di Roma, Italy

  3. J. Meyer

    Present address: DESY, Hamburg, Germany

  4. F. L. Navarria

    Present address: University and INFN, Bologna, Italy

  5. A. Baroncelli & C. Bosio

    Present address: INFN Sezione Sanità and istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

  6. B. Borgia, F. Ferroni, E. Longo, P. Monacelli, F. de Notaristefani, P. Pistilli, C. Santoni & V. Valente

    Present address: Istituto di Fisica, University of Roma and INFN Sezione di Roma, Italy

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  1. NIKHEF, NL-1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    M. Jonker & F. Udo

  2. CERN, CH-1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    J. V. Allaby, U. Amaldi, G. Barbiellini, A. Capone, W. Flegel, M. Metcalf, J. Meyer, F. L. Navarria, J. Panman, A. M. Wetherell & K. Winter

  3. II. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, D-2000, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany

    F. W. Büsser, H. Daumann, P. D. Gall, E. Metz, F. Niebergall, K. H. Ranitzsch & P. Stähelin

  4. Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, SU-Moscow, USSR

    E. Grigoriev, V. Kaftanov, V. Khovansky & A. Rosanov

  5. Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare, I-00100, Rome, Italy

    A. Baroncelli, B. Borgia, C. Bosio, F. Ferroni, E. Longo, P. Monacelli, F. de Notaristefani, P. Pistilli, C. Santoni & V. Valente

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Jonker, M., Udo, F., Allaby, J.V. et al. Measurement of the polarization of positive muons produced in high-energy antineutrino interactions. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 17, 211–217 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01578147

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