PARITY VIOLATION IN QUASI-ELASTIC ELECTRON-SCATTERING FROM CLOSED-SHELL NUCLEI

The electromagnetic and weak neutral current matrix elements that ente r in the analysis of parity-violating quasielastic electron scattering are calculated using a continuum nuclear shell model, New approximati ons to the on-shell relativistic one-body currents and relativistic ki nematics for use in such models are developed and discussed in detail. Results are presented for three closed-shell nuclei of interest: O-16 , Ca-40 and Pb-208. The current work concludes with a study of the sen sitivity of the resulting parity-violating asymmetries to properties o f the nucleon form factors including the possible strangeness content of the nucleon.