Possible Parity and Time-Reversal Experiments using the Mössbauer Effect

Abstract

In the successive transition of the beta and gamma decays, the excited and ground states of the daughter nucleus are effectively polarized, when the satellites of the Mössbauer effect are separately observed. Using this nuclear polarization, we design various experiments to detect parity nonconservation and time-reversal invariance in beta decay. These experiments involve the measurement of the coincidence counting rate of beta rays and satellites of the Mössbauer effect. The resulting improvement in accuracy will make possible, for example, the precision measurement of the asymmetry of beta-ray angular distributions.