PARITY AND TIME REVERSAL VIOLATION IN RESONANCE NEUTRON TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS WITH POLARIZED TARGETS

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Abstract
The formalism for evaluating parity and time reversal violating terms in total cross sections of polarized targets and low energy resonance neutrons is reviewed. A complete set of symmetry violating terms (P-odd, T-even; P-odd, T-odd; and P-even, T-odd) is obtained by analyzing the dependence of the cross section on the statistical tensors describing the beam and target. Results are tabulated in numerical and closed analytic form, using the j-spin representation. P-odd, T-even experiments are classified, with emphasis on experiments with an unpolarized beam and a polarized target where the effect of induced polarization is found to be small. Different combinations of partial neutron widths are shown to enter when P-odd, T-odd effects are compared to P-odd, T-even effects. The results for P-even, T-odd experiments for single level and two level mixing are summarized.

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