Test of charge symmetry in neutron-proton elastic scattering at 477 MeV

An experiment resulting in the first measurement of the isospin-mixing, charge-symmetry violating component of the n-italic-p-italic interaction has been performed. The experiment determined the difference in the angles of the zero crossing of the neutron and proton analyzing powers A-italic/sub n-italic/ and A-italic/sub p-italic/ at 477 MeV. In terms of the laboratory scattering angle of the neutron, the measured difference t-italich-italice-italict-italica-italic/sub 0//sub n-italic/(A/sub n/)= -t-italich-italice-italict-italica-italic/sub 0//sub n-italic/(A/sub p/) = +0.13X(de +- 0.06 X(de( +- 0.03X(de) where the second error is a worst case estimate of systematic error. The resulting difference in the analyzing powers at the zero-crossing angle A-italic/sub n-italic/-A/sub p/ = +0.0037 +- 0.0017( +- 0 .0008).