Charge Symmetry Breaking in Electromagnetic Nucleon Form Factors in Elastic Parity-Violating Electron-Nucleus Scattering

TL;DR

This paper investigates charge symmetry breaking effects in nucleon electromagnetic form factors and finds they are negligible compared to other effects in parity-violating electron scattering experiments.

Contribution

It provides a quantitative analysis of charge symmetry breaking effects in nucleon form factors within the context of elastic parity-violating electron scattering.

Findings

Charge symmetry breaking effects are much smaller than other known effects.

Analysis of a planned experiment is discussed.

Charge symmetry breaking has minimal impact on the scattering measurements.

Abstract

The effects of charge symmetry breaking in nucleon electromagnetic form factors on parity- violating elastic electron-12C scattering is studied, and found to be much smaller than other known effects. The analysis of a planned experiment is discussed.