Parity non-conservation in low energy scattering of nucleons by light nuclei: (II). Results

The analysis developed in the preceding paper is applied to the low energy scattering of longitudinally polarized nucleons by ²H, ³He and ⁴He and of deuterons by ¹H. The sensitivity of the parity non-conserving asymmetry of the total cross section to the weak interaction is probed. The asymmetry is computed for various parity non-conserving nucleon-nucleon potentials in a distorted wave approximation. The asymmetries generally are found to depend sensitively on the parameters of the potential, but are smaller than those predicted for nucleon-nucleon scattering at the same energy.