Application of T-Invariance Conditions in Selecting Mechanisms of Nuclear Reactions, Decays, and Fission


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Abstract

T-invariance conditions for the differential cross sections of multiparticle multistep nuclear reactions are found with allowance for spin orientations of particles in the initial channels of such reactions. It is shown that the asymmetry coefficients for different T-parities in the differential cross sections for original and time-reversed reactions are expressed in terms of unified scalar (pseudoscalar) functions that depend of the 3-momenta and spins of particles involved in the initial and final channels of the reactions under analysis. It is also shown that knowledge of the aforementioned functions for the asymmetries under analysis in the original reaction makes it possible to reconstruct the respective functions for the analogous asymmetries in the time-reversed reaction without studying it experimentally. By considering the example of T-even and T-odd asymmetries in reactions where oriented nuclei undergo binary and ternary fission induced by cold polarized neutrons, it is demonstrated that the T-invariance conditions in question can be used to select mechanisms behind the appearance of the above asymmetries—in particular, mechanisms associated with the presence of T-noninvariant interactions.

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S. G. Kadmensky

Voronezh State University

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Email: kadmensky@phys.vsu.ru
Russian Federation, Universitetskaya pl. 1, Voronezh, 394036

P. V. Kostrukov

Voronezh State University

Email: kadmensky@phys.vsu.ru
Russian Federation, Universitetskaya pl. 1, Voronezh, 394036

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