Parity violation in deep-inelastic charged lepton-hadron scattering

Abstract

The possibility of detecting parity violation in deep-inelastic charged lepton-hadron scattering using polarized lepton beams is discussed. Assuming scaling, the quark-parton picture of the nucleon, and some general features of the weak currents, a general formula for the size of the parity-violating effect is derived. Specific estimates are made for various spontaneously broken gauge-symmetry models of the weak and electromagnetic interactions.