Weak interactions are expected to induce a parity violating pion-nucleon
coupling, h_{\pi NN}^{(1)}. This coupling should be measurable in a proposed
experiment to study the parity violating asymmetry A_\gamma in the process \vec
n + p \to d+\gamma. We compute the leading dependence of A_\gamma on the
coupling h_{\pi NN}^{(1)} using recently developed effective field theory
techniques and find an asymmetry of A_\gamma = +0.17 h_{\pi NN}^{(1)} at
leading order. This asymmetry has the opposite sign to that given by
Desplanques, Donoghue and Holstein.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures from 3 eps files, late