Abstract
A formalism is developed that incorporates parity violation into the statistical theory of nuclear reactions. It allows the calculation of average square values of observables sensitive to parity breaking starting from well known average parameters (transmission coefficients and level densities) as input. For the case of low-energy neutron resonance scattering, a systematic study of the expected size of the effect is presented. An enhanced sensitivity of these reactions to parity violation is borne out.
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