Hadronic parity violation: successes, challenges, and future prospects

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current understanding of hadronic parity violation, highlighting recent progress and future research directions in studying weak and strong interactions in hadronic systems.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent theoretical and experimental advances in hadronic parity violation and discusses prospects for extending studies to complex nuclei and beyond.

Findings

Recent experimental measurements of parity-violating observables

Advances in theoretical models of weak-strong interaction interplay

Potential for new physics searches through precision nuclear studies

Abstract

Hadronic parity violation concerns the study of the interplay of the weak- and strong-interaction dynamics that yields low energy, parity-violating observables in systems of hadrons and nuclei. We explain its essential features, as well as our current understanding of its observed effects, describing recent theoretical and experimental progress in a pedagogical context. We provide a broad overview of ongoing research efforts to show how precision studies of few-nucleon systems can be extended to studies of complex nuclei and, ultimately, to new benchmarks for computations in the Standard Model, as well as to new searches for the dynamics beyond it.