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Atomic parity non-conservation: the francium anapole project of the FrPNC collaboration at TRIUMF

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We present a method for measuring the nuclear anapole in a string of francium isotopes. The anapole is a parity non-conserving electromagnetic moment that enables parity-forbidden transitions between ground state hyperfine levels of an atom. The experiment is run by the FrPNC collaboration and relies on a beam of artificially-produced francium from the ISAC facility at TRIUMF.

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    Present address: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. Physics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 23197, USA

    S. Aubin

  2. TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, V6T 2A3, Canada

    J. A. Behr, K. P. Jackson, M. R. Pearson & M. Tandecki

  3. School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia

    V. V. Flambaum

  4. Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, 78290, Mexico

    E. Gomez

  5. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada

    R. Collister, G. Gwinner & M. Tandecki

  6. Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA

    D. Melconian

  7. JQI, Dept. of Physics, and NIST, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    L. A. Orozco, D. Sheng & J. Zhang

  8. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA

    G. D. Sprouse

  9. State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Shanxi University, Taijuan, 030006, China

    Y. Zhao

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Aubin, S., Behr, J.A., Collister, R. et al. Atomic parity non-conservation: the francium anapole project of the FrPNC collaboration at TRIUMF. Hyperfine Interact 214, 163–171 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-013-0797-6

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