WorkshopXll

StandardModelTbsts
and Symmetries
Nuclear Physics A527 (1991) 685~688~ 68%
North-Holland, Amsterdam

FUNDAMENTAL SYMMETRIES AND THE STANDARD MODEL

Barry R. Holstein

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003

Because of space limitations, it is impossible to present the full range of contributions to the
session on Standard Model Tests and Symmetries. Thus it is necessary to only briefly summarize
most of the presentations.
Two new results were presented on the branching rates R = x+eve I n+l.+, which provides
the best available test of lepton university. The values
(1.23? f 0.006) x lo4 TRIUMF given by T. Numao
R exp =
1 (1.223 f 0.004) x lOA PSI given by U. Moser
(1)
are both in reasonable agreement with the theoretical expectation1
Rtheo = 1.234 x 1O-4 (2)
A new measurement of the muon helicity in the decay K++p+vu using surface beam
techniques at KEK was presented by J. Imazato. The experimental number
-5Pu = 1.011 i 0.004 * 0.007, (3)
where 5 is the Michel parameter2 and Pu is the muon polarization, agrees well with the V-A
prediction of unity and provides improved limits on the absence of right-handed currents.
An additional constraint on possible right-handed effects was given by a new Louvain-la-
Neuve experiment involving comparative positron polarimetry3 and described by A.S. Carnoy.
The result
6 = 1.003 * 0.004

involving the comparison of the helicity in the Fermi (Gamow-Teller) &cay of 140(1oC) provides
the limit
-0.004 < ys < 0.007 (5)
Mw’L
on right-hand parameters, where 6 = ~ is the square of the left/right handed gauge boson mass
MW”R
ratios and 5 is the WL - WR mixing angle.
Reported by A. Sema-Angel was a new VPISU-TRIUMF measurement involving radiative
muon capture on complex nuclei. Data was presented on a series of nuclei from Z - 20 to Z - 80
and suggested significant quenching of the induced pseudoscalar coupling constant gp in heavy
nuclei, as suggested by some theoretical models.(4) The data are preliminary and further work is in
progress.

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686c B.R. Hoktein / Fundamental symmetries

The CLEO collaboration, represented by T. Letson, announced a new measurement of the

asymmetry parameter in the decay Az+Arr+. The experimental number

CL*; = -1.05 * 0.44 + 0.10 (6)

is in good agreement with a theoretical estimate due to Bjorken

based on a simple factorization model. An interesting by product of this measurement (which

averages AZ decays) are the separate results

a*; = -1.2 * 0.7 a,( = +0.9 f 0.6 (8)

which agree with the theoretical expectations in Eq. 7.

Results were presented by X.Q. Lu on the LAMPF E-225 vee- elastic scattering measurement
which attempted to measure the interference between W- and Z- exchange contributions to this
process. Writing the cross section as
o=oCC+oNC+oI (9)
where occ (c& are charged-current (neutral-current) cross sections respectively and 01
represents the interference term, the measurement yielded5
2
GF me$
q = (-2.14 f 0.34 _+0.24) 2K

strongly supporting the standard model prediction

2
G, m&p
the0
= -2.16 2K
9

A. Poblaguev discussed a new measurement of radiative pion decay--x+evpat ISTRA.

Analysis of the spectrum suggests the presence of a possible tensor coupling of the size fT - 3 - 4
x 10-2, which is not inconsistent with upper bounds obtained from other reactions, although such
an effect lies outside the standard model.
Progress reports were given by a number of groups. Ongoing work on lepton number
conservation involving p- Ti + e- Ti at PSI by the SINDRUM group aiming at a branching ratio at
the level at the x lo-12 level was discussed by M. Grossmann-Handchin. A muonium conversion
experiment at LAMPF was described by W. Shaeffer which should result in a substantial
improvement on the existing limit. Finally, E. Beise from the SAMPLE collaboration discussed
their proposed measurement of the weak magnetic form factor F2 in polarized electron scattering at
BATES, as a probe for strangeness content of the proton.
On the theoretical side, there were also a number of presentations. M. Morita (Osaka) reported
on a new calculation of meson exchange contributions to muon capture on deuterium. The
calculated number
Fu_d = 402 set-l (10)
is in good agreement with the measurements of Cargnelli et. al.7
 Fu_g = 409 f 40 set-l (11)
M. Musolf (MIT) analyzed the un~~nties due to standard model radiative corrections and
strong interaction effects which are relevant to various electromagnetic and weak scattering
processes and specifically to the proposed SAMPLE measurement, in which case there exists an
uncertainty AFT = f 0.3 in the neutral weak magnetic coupling.8
Finally, P. Herczeg (LANL) discussed the possibility of measuring T-violation in muon
capture experiments via correlations such as
<Jf>~k,cJf>.k,xqi
<Jf>.k,x<op> (12)
While such effects are O(lO-10) in the standard model, results can be much larger in models with
right handed couplings or in theories involving leptoquarks.

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