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REVT X 3.0 Published in Phys.Rev.Lett, V. 70, p.4051 28 JUNE 1993 E Matrix Elements between Nuclear Compound States and Dynamical Enhancement of the Weak Interaction V. V. Flambaum and O. K. Vorov ∗ Theoretical Physics Department, School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia (Received 9 December 1992) A method to calculate the mean squared matrix element of weak interaction between compound states is developed. The result is expressed in terms of matrix elements of the nucleon-nucleon strong and weak interactions times the Fermi distribution functions at finite temperature. Numerical cal- culations for 233Th are in excellent agreement with recent measurements of parity nonconservation effects in neutron capture. In fact, our calculations prove that the factor of dynamical enhance- ment (ratio of compound-nucleus effect to single-particle one) really exceeds 100, thus making it 8 unnesessary to assume a value of the weak constant bigger than standard one (g ≃ 10 ǫ ∼ 1 ÷ 4). 7 9 PACS numbers: 24.60.Dr, 24.60.Lz, 25.40.Dn, 24.80.Dc 9 1 n The parity nonconcerving (PNC) nucleon interaction of single-particle nature. The valence mechanism gives u in nuclei now attracts attention of both experimental- correlations of the sign in the effect on the different reso- J