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Ultracold neutrons (UCNs) are key for precision studies of fundamental parameters of the neutron and in searches for new CP violating processes or exotic interactions beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The most prominent example…

Ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) are neutrons with energies so low they can be stored in material bottles and magnetic traps. They have been used to provide the currently most accurate experiments on the neutron life time and electric dipole…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Korobkina , R. Golub , B. W. Wehring , A. R. Young

The TUCAN (TRIUMF UltraCold Advanced Neutron) Collaboration is completing a new ultracold neutron (UCN) source. The UCN source will deliver UCNs to a neutron electric dipole moment (EDM) experiment. The EDM experiment is projected to be…

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

Searches for the permanent electric dipole moment of the neutron (nEDM) provide strong constraints on theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The TUCAN collaboration is constructing a source for ultracold neutrons (UCN) and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-03 Steve Sidhu , Wolfgang Schreyer , Sean Vanbergen , Shinsuke Kawasaki , Ryohei Matsumiya , Takahiro Okamura , Ruediger Picker

Ultracold neutrons provide a unique tool for the study of neutron properties. An overview is given of the ultracold neutron (UCN) source at PSI, which produces the highest UCN intensities to fundamental physics experiments by exploiting the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-06-08 Bernhard Lauss , Bertrand Blau

We present the status of the development of a dedicated high density ultra-cold neutron (UCN) source dedicated to the gravitational spectrometer GRANIT. The source employs superthermal conversion of cold neutrons to UCN in superfluid…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-08-21 P. Schmidt-Wellenburg , P. Geltenbort , V. V. Nesvizhevsky , C. Plonka , T. Soldner , F. Vezzu , O. Zimmer

The performance of the solid deuterium ultra-cold neutron source at the pulsed reactor TRIGA Mainz with a maximum peak energy of 10 MJ is described. The solid deuterium converter with a volume of V=160 cm3 (8 mol), which is exposed to a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Karch , Yu. Sobolev , M. Beck , K. Eberhardt , G. Hampel , W. Heil , R. Kieser , T. Reich , N. Trautmann , M. Ziegner

We report the first successful extraction of accumulated ultracold neutrons (UCN) from a converter of superfluid helium, in which they were produced by downscattering neutrons of a cold beam from the Munich research reactor. Windowless UCN…

The neutron electric dipole moment (EDM) is a sensitive probe for currently undiscovered sources of charge-parity symmetry violation. As part of the TRIUMF Ultracold Advanced Neutron (TUCAN) collaboration, we are developing spin analyzers…

Ultracold neutron (UCN) storage measurements were made in a trap constructed from a 1.3 T Halbach Octupole PErmanent (HOPE) magnet array aligned vertically, using the TES-port of the PF2 source at the Institut Laue-Langevin. A mechanical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 K. K. H. Leung , P. Geltenbort , S. Ivanov , F. Rosenau , O. Zimmer

A fast-switching, high-repetition-rate magnet and power supply have been developed for and operated at TRIUMF, to deliver a proton beam to the new ultracold neutron (UCN) facility. The facility possesses unique operational requirements: a…

Ultracold neutrons (UCNs) are a useful tool for fundamental physics experiments. They can be used to probe the lifetime of free neutrons, search for new CP violating processes and exotic interactions beyond the Standard Model, perform…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-07 Stefan Döge , Jürgen Hingerl , Christoph Morkel

A new time projection chamber (TPC) was developed for neutron lifetime measurement using a pulsed cold neutron spallation source at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). Managing considerable background events from natural…

Ultracold neutrons (UCN) can be stored in suitable bottles and observed for several hundreds of seconds. Therefore UCN can be used to study in detail the fundamental properties of the neutron. A new user facility providing ultracold…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-04 Bernhard Lauss

Ultracold neutrons (UCNs) are used in experiments investigating fundamental interactions, testing the Standard Model of particle physics and searching for phenomena beyond it. Knowledge of the energy spectrum of UCNs is very often a key…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-12-06 D. Rozpedzik , K. Bodek , K. Kirch , B. Lauss , K. Lojek , I. Rienaecker , P. Schmidt-Wellenburg , G. Zsigmond

To solve the ''neutron lifetime puzzle,'' where measured neutron lifetimes differ depending on the measurement methods, an experiment with pulsed neutron beam at J-PARC is in progress. In this experiment, neutrons are bunched into 40-cm…

This article describes the new primary proton beamline 1U at TRIUMF. The purpose of this beamline is to produce ultracold neutrons (UCN) for fundamental-physics experiments. It delivers up to 40 microA of 480 MeV protons from the TRIUMF…

Efficient neutron transport is a key ingredient to the performance of ultracold neutron (UCN) sources, important to meeting the challenges placed by high precision fundamental physics experiments. At the Paul Scherrer Institute's UCN source…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-06-22 G. Bison , M. Daum , K. Kirch , B. Lauss , D. Ries , P. Schmidt-Wellenburg , G. Zsigmond

A new type of cold/ultracold neutron detector that can realize a spatial resolution of less than 100 nm was developed using nuclear emulsion. The detector consists of a fine-grained nuclear emulsion coating and a 50-nm thick $^{10}$B$_4$C…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-05 N. Naganawa , T. Ariga , S. Awano , M. Hino , K. Hirota , H. Kawahara , M. Kitaguchi , K. Mishima , H. M. Shimizu , S. Tada , S. Tasaki , A. Umemoto