Low-Energy Parity-Violation and New Physics

Abstract

The new physics sensitivity of a variety of low-energy parity-violating (PV) observables is analyzed. A comparison is made between atomic PV for a single isotope, atomic PV using isotope ratios, and PV electron-hadron and electron-electron scattering. The complementarity among these observables, as well as with high-energy processes, is emphasized. Theoretical uncertainties entering the interpretation of low-energy measurements are discussed.

Comments: 37 pages, 2 figures. Omissions to Tables I and V corrected along with some minor typographical errors. To appear in Phys. Rev. C