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Excited fermions and low-energy parity-violating phenomena

R. G. Ellis, M. Matsuda, and B. H. J. McKellar

  • School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia

Phys. Rev. D 32, 1657 – Published 1 October, 1985

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.32.1657

Abstract

A calculation is made of the parity-violating contributions of hypothetical excited quarks and leptons to two examples of low-energy phenomena. In particular, the contributions to polarized-electrondeuteron scattering and the parity-violating nuclear potential are studied. The parity-violating contributions are induced by the magnetic coupling of photons or gluons with virtual excited fermions and left-handed ordinary fermions. It is concluded that the mass of an excited quark, if it exists, must be larger than ∼3 TeV. The restriction on the mass of an excited lepton is less stringent.

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