Parity-Forbidden Decay of the 8.88-MeV <span class="aps-inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mmultiscripts><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">O</mi></mrow><mprescripts></mprescripts><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>16</mn></mrow><mrow></mrow><mrow></mrow></mmultiscripts></mrow></math></span> State

E. M. Henley; T. E. Keliher; D. U. L. Yu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.941

Parity-Forbidden Decay of the 8.88-MeV ${}^{16}O$ State

E. M. Henley, T. E. Keliher, and D. U. L. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 23, 941 – Published 20 October 1969

Abstract

The decay rate of the 8.88-MeV state of ${}^{16}O$ is estimated with a parity-nonconserving force involving $ρ$ exchange. It is pointed out that this decay can be of crucial importance for testing part of the nonleptonic weak interaction, because isospin conservation in the $α$ decay limits the interaction responsible for the parity mixing in the initial state to the $Δ I = 0$ part arising from the strangeness-nonchanging nonleptonic weak currents.

Received 19 August 1969

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.941

Authors & Affiliations

E. M. Henley and T. E. Keliher^*

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105

D. U. L. Yu^†

Seattle Pacific College, Seattle, Washington 98122

^*Work supported in part by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission under Contract No. AT (945-1)1388.
^†National Aeronautics and Space Administration Summer Faculty Fellow at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.