Hadronic parity violation in pionless effective field theory

Abstract

We present results for two-body observables that are sensitive to the parity-violating component of nucleon-nucleon interactions. These interactions are studied using an effective field theory in which the only dynamic degrees of freedom are nucleon fields. The observables we study are cross-section asymmetries in nucleon-nucleon scattering and asymmetries and induced polarizations in the process np \to d\gamma.

Comments: 5 pages, proceedings of the 4th International Workshop "From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and more..." (PAVI09), Bar Harbor, Maine, June 22-26, 2009