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Dispersion engineering in silicon nitride (SiX NY ) waveguides is investigated through the optimization of the waveguide transversal dimensions and refractive indices in a multi-cladding arrangement. Ultra-flat dispersion of -84.0 +/- 0.5…

We model the effect of ground movement, based on empirical experience, on the transport properties of long neutron guides by ray-tracing simulations. Our results reproduce the large losses found by an earlier study for a simple model, while…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-14 Asla Husgard , Martin A. Olsen , Rebekka Frøystad , Jonas P. Hyatt , Mads Bertelsen , Rasmus Toft-Petersen , Kim Lefmann

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

Measurements on helium and argon gas flow through an array of parallel, linear channels of 12 nm diameter and 200 micrometer length in a single crystalline silicon membrane reveal a Knudsen diffusion type transport from 10^2 to 10^7 in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 Simon Gruener , Patrick Huber

We present experimental data on ultracold neutron (UCN) production in solid oxygen from 5 K to 50 K. The experiment used 3 cells of different dimensions in order to study the excess UCN elastic scattering in s-O$_2$ due to source density…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-03-29 C. -Y. Liu , C. M. Lavelle , D. J. Salvat , W. Fox , G. Manus , P. M. McChesney , Y. Shin , A. Couture

We consider random flights in $\mathbb{R}^d$ reflecting on the surface of a sphere $\mathbb{S}^{d-1}_R,$ with center at the origin and with radius $R,$ where reflection is performed by means of circular inversion. Random flights studied in…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Alessandro De Gregorio , Enzo Orsingher

A method is proposed which allows a complete determination of the complex reflection coefficient for any free unknown real potential (i.e., in the case where there is no effective absorption). In this method the unknown layer mounted on top…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 S. F. Masoudi , A. Pazirandeh

In this work we extended an energy-integrated neutrino transport method to facilitate efficient, yet precise, modeling of compact astrophysical objects. We particularly focus on core-collapse supernovae. We implemented a gray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-03 Haakon Andresen , Evan P. O'Connor , Oliver Eggenberger Andersen , Sean M. Couch

Diffusion guidance is a powerful technique that enables controllable and high-fidelity sample generation with diffusion models. At a high level, it modifies the score function by incorporating a guidance term that steers the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ruijia Cao , Yuchen Wu , Nisha Chandramoorthy

Observations of intergalactic neutral hydrogen can provide a wealth of information about structure and galaxy formation, potentially tracing accretion and feedback processes on Mpc scales. Below a column density of NHI ~ 10^19 cm-2, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Attila Popping , Romeel Dave , Robert Braun , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

The identification of ultra-high energy cosmic ray sources is one of the open challenges of high-energy astrophysics. As charged particles travel through the Universe, they are deflected by extragalactic magnetic fields and lose energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Nadine Bourriche , Francesca Capel , Nicole Hartmann

We present the results of numerical simulations of the dynamical behavior of trajectories of ultra cold neutrons (UCN) in a magnetic trap. The main goal of our simulations was to optimize the trap parameters in order to minimize the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Vyacheslav N. Gorshkov , Gennady P. Berman

A method of using a gravitational UCN spectrometer to search for long-range forces between neutrons and atoms is proposed. The constraints on the strength of long-range forces within the range of 10-10 - 10-4 cm can be obtained from the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-05-19 A. P. Serebrov , O. M. Zherebtsov , S. V. Sbitnev , V. E. Varlamov , A. V. Vassiljev , M. S. Lasakov

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

Ultracold neutrons (UCN) are free neutrons that can be stored in experimental setups for several minutes. Some of the most important properties of the neutron, such as its tiny permanent electric dipole moment and its beta decay lifetime,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-06-09 Klaus Kirch , Bernhard Lauss

We report on a versatile mini ultra-high vacuum (UHV) chamber which is designed to be used on the MAgnetic Reflectometer with high Incident Angle of the J\"ulich Centre for Neutron Science at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum in Garching,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-13 A. Syed Mohd , S. Pütter , S. Mattauch , A. Koutsioubas , H. Schneider , A. Weber , T. Brückel

The puzzle remains in the large discrepancy between neutron lifetime measured by the two distinct experimental approaches -- counts of beta decays in a neutron beam and storage of ultracold neutrons in a potential trap, namely, the beam…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-12-02 Wanchun Wei

We present the results of an Ultracold neutron (UCN) production experiment in a pulsed neutron beam line at the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center. The experimental apparatus allows for a comprehensive set of measurements of UCN…

This paper investigates the propagation characteristics of circular waveguides whose interior surface is coated with a thin metamaterial liner possessing dispersive, negative, and near-zero permittivity. A field analysis of this system…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-13 Justin G. Pollock , Ashwin K. Iyer

Diffusion models for continuous data gained widespread adoption owing to their high quality generation and control mechanisms. However, controllable diffusion on discrete data faces challenges given that continuous guidance methods do not…