Hadronic Parity Violation and Inelastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering

Abstract

We compute contributions to the parity-violating (PV) inelastic electron-deuteron scattering asymmetry arising from hadronic PV. While hadronic PV effects can be relatively important in PV threshold electro- disintegration, we find that they are highly suppressed at quasielastic kinematics. The interpretation of the PV quasielastic asymmetry is, thus, largely unaffected by hadronic PV.

Comments: 27 pages, 13 figures, uses REVTeX and BibTeX