MAGNETIC INTERACTION BETWEEN RELATIVISTIC ATOMIC ELECTRONS AND PARITYNONCONSERVING NUCLEAR MOMENTS

Parity nonconserving nuclear forces induce electromagnetic currents an d nuclear moments of the wrong parity (e.g., anapole moment). The inte raction between atomic electrons and these currents is considered taki ng into account finite nuclear size and relativistic effects. The form ula has been derived which allows one to separate the atomic and nucle ar problems. The result can be approximately expressed as the interact ion of an electron with a pointlike nuclear anapole moment times a cor rection factor [1 - 0.3(Zalpha)2]. As an illustration we use a simple model to calculate the distribution of the parity-violating electromag netic current, magnetic field, and vector potential.