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In this paper we report on a high current density ion beam profile diagnostics with a slit-based system as a reliable method, capable of high thermal load applications. The task arose in frames of a point-like neutron source development for…

The study of the eightfold degeneracy at a neutrino complex that includes a standard $\beta$-Beam and a Super-Beam facility is presented for the first time in this paper. The scenario where the neutrinos are sent toward a Megaton water…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Donini , E. Fernandez-Martinez , P. Migliozzi , S. Rigolin , L. Scotto Lavina

Quantum states in the Earth's gravitational field can be observed, when ultra-cold neutrons fall under gravity. In an experiment at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, neutrons are reflected and trapped in a gravitational cavity above a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Hartmut Abele , Stefan Baessler , Alexander Westphal

The ultracold neutron (UCN) source at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) provides high intensities of storable neutrons for fundamental physics experiments. The neutron velocity spectrum parallel to the beamline axis was determined by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-02 G. Bison , W. Chen , P. -J. Chiu , M. Daum , C. B. Doorenbos , K. Kirch , V. Kletzl , B. Lauss , D. Pais , I. Rienäcker , P. Schmidt-Wellenburg , G. Zsigmond

The emission of neutrons from heavy ion reactions is an important observable for studying the asymmetric nuclear equation of state and the reaction dynamics. A 20-unit neutron array has been developed and mounted on the compact spectrometer…

A new type of radiation detector, a p-type modified electrode germanium diode, is presented. The prototype displays, for the first time, a combination of features (mass, energy threshold and background expectation) required for a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-05-12 P. S. Barbeau , J. I. Collar , O. Tench

We perform classical three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of ultracold neutrons scattering through an absorbing-reflecting mirror system in the Earth's gravitational field. We show that the underlying mixed phase space of regular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-20 L. A. Chizhova , S. Rotter , T. Jenke , G. Cronenberg , P. Geltenbort , G. Wautischer , H. Filter H. Abele , J. Burgdörfer

Observational SETI has concentrated on using electromagnetism as the carrier , namely radio waves and laser radiation. Michael Hippke [2] has pointed out that it may be possible to use neutrinos or gravitational waves as signals.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-04 A. A. Jackson

The construction of large volume detectors of high energy, >1 TeV, neutrinos is mainly driven by the search for extra-Galactic neutrino sources. The existence of such sources is implied by observations of ultra-high energy, >10^{19} eV,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Waxman

We investigate the possibility of ultracold neutron (UCN) storage in quantum states defined by the combined potentials of the Earth's gravity and the neutron optical repulsion by a horizontal surface of liquid helium. We analyse the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 P. D. Grigoriev , O. Zimmer , T. Ziman , A. D. Grigoriev

The ability of hexagonal boron nitride to host quantum emitters in the form of deep-level color centers makes it an important material for quantum photonic applications. This work utilizes a monolithic circular Bragg grating device to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Lesley Spencer , Jake Horder , Sejeong Kim , Milos Toth , Igor Aharonovich

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the South Pole, covers a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice, and is designed to detect astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range. While IceCube has recently identified a diffuse flux of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-01 Alejandra Granados , Rishi Babu , Mehr Un Nisa

Cosmological gamma ray bursts are very likely powerful sources of high energy neutrinos and gravitational waves. The aim of this paper is to review and update the current predictions about the intensity of emission in this two forms to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giulio Auriemma

The neutron emission in the fragmentation of stable and radioactive Sn and La projectiles of 600 MeV per nucleon has been studied with the Large Neutron Detector LAND coupled to the ALADIN forward spectrometer at SIS. A cluster-recognition…

The dynamical structure factor of solid $^{15}$N$_{2}$ in the $\alpha$ phase ($T<35$K) is measured at the IN4 time-of-flight spectrometer at the Institut Laue Langevin, and the potential performance of this substance as a UCN converter is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-16 D. J. Salvat , E. Gutsmiedl , C. -Y. Liu , P. Geltenbort , A. Orecchini , S. Paul , H. Schober

We consider the possibility of creating a graviton laser. The lasing medium would be a system of contained, ultra cold neutrons. Ultra cold neutrons are a quantum mechanical system that interacts with gravitational fields and with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 A. Landry , M. B. Paranjape

The sources of cosmic rays with energies above 55 EeV are still mysterious. A guaranteed associated flux of ultra high energy neutrinos known as the cosmogenic neutrino flux will be measured by next generation radio facilities, such as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Klaes Møller , Peter B. Denton , Irene Tamborra

X-ray-dim isolated neutron stars (XDINSs), also known as the Magnificent Seven, exhibits a Planck-like soft X-ray spectrum. In the optical/ultraviolet(UV) band, there is an excess of radiation compared to the extrapolation from the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-25 Weiyang Wang , Yi Feng , Xiaoyu Lai , Yunyang Li , Jiguang Lu , Xuelei Chen , Renxin Xu

If there exist unstable but long-lived relics of the early universe, their decays could produce detectable fluxes of gamma rays and neutrinos. In this paper, we point out that the decays of superheavy particles, $m_{\chi} \gtrsim 10^{10} \,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 Kim V. Berghaus , Dan Hooper , Emily R. Simon

The GALILEO $\gamma$-ray spectrometer has been constructed at the Legnaro National Laboratory of INFN (LNL-INFN). It can be coupled to advanced ancillary devices which allows nuclear structure studies employing the variety of in-beam…