Demonstration of a Sensitive Method to Measure Nuclear-Spin-Dependent Parity Violation.

Nuclear-spin-dependent parity violation (NSD-PV) effects in atoms and molecules arise from Z^{0} boson exchange between electrons and the nucleus, and from the magnetic interaction between electrons and the parity-violating nuclear anapole moment. We demonstrate measurements of NSD-PV that use an enhancement of the effect in diatomic molecules, here using the test system ^{138}Ba^{19}F. Our sensitivity surpasses that of any previous atomic parity violation measurement.