POLARIZED PARITY VIOLATING ELECTRON SCATTERING ON 3H AND ITS RELATION TO THE 3He CASE
We calculate the asymmetry parameters, A, and figures-of-merit for polarized parity violating electron scattering from 3 H via the reaction, e- + 3 H → 3 H + e- for incident electron energies of 1.0 GeV, 2.0 GeV, and 4.0 GeV. We find a sharp variation in A due to cancellations between the weak and electromagnetic form factors caused by the different q2 dependences of these form factors. These variations are similar to those found in the asymmetry for the reaction, e- + 3 He → e- + 3 He but occur at different angles due to the difference in form factors for the two cases. We find that at small angles, the asymmetry may be obtained to reasonably high accuracy for all energies considered and that there is a weak minimum in it at small angles for all of the energies considered here. We show that it might be possible to observe strange quark contributions to the asymmetry at this minimum due to the high sensitivity of A to strange quark contributions in this region. In addition we find that the asymmetry and figures of merit are in the range of those for other proposed target nuclei.