Parity Violation in Weak Nuclear Interactions

Brian Robson

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    Abstract

    The treatment of parity violations in the weak nuclear interactions is discussed within the frameworks of both the Standard Model (SM) and the Generation Model (GM) of particle physics. It will be demonstrated that several important differences between these two models lead to the SM merely describing the parity violations, while the GM provides an understanding of the cause of the parity violations in weak nuclear interactions. The significant differences arising from several dubious assumptions made during the development of the SM, lead to very different conclusions concerning the nature of the parity violations in the two models. While the SM is able to describe the observed parity violations in terms of a “V-A” theory of the weak nuclear interactions, the GM is also able to demonstrate the cause of the observed parity violations: in the GM, the observed parity violations arise as a consequence of the negative intrinsic parity of both the W massive bosons, which mediate these so-called charge-changing (CC) weak nuclear interactions.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)330-344
    JournalJournal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology
    Volume8
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2022

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