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The n2EDM experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute

We present the new spectrometer for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) search at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), called n2EDM. The setup is at room temperature in vacuum using ultracold neutrons. n2EDM features a large UCN double…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-08 C. Abel , N. J. Ayres , G. Ban , G. Bison , K. Bodek , V. Bondar , E. Chanel , P. -J. Chiu , B. Clement , C. Crawford , M. Daum , S. Emmenegger , P. Flaux , L. Ferraris-Bouchez , W. C. Griffith , Z. D. Grujić , P. G. Harris , W. Heil , N. Hild , K. Kirch , P. A. Koss , A. Kozela , J. Krempel , B. Lauss , T. Lefort , Y. Lemière , A. Leredde , P. Mohanmurthy , O. Naviliat-Cuncic , D. Pais , F. M. Piegsa , G. Pignol , M. Rawlik , D. Rebreyend , D. Ries , S. Roccia , K. Ross , D. Rozpedzik , P. Schmidt-Wellenburg , A. Schnabel , N. Severijns , J. Thorne , R. Virot , J. Voigt , A. Weis , E. Wursten , J. Zejma , G. Zsigmond

OscSNS: Precision Neutrino Measurements at the Spallation Neutron Source

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), located at Oak Ridge Laboratory in the United States, will be coming online over the next few years. In addition to producing fluxes of high-intensity neutrons, the interaction of the proton beam with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Heather Ray

Distributed data processing and analysis environment for neutron scattering experiments at CSNS

China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is the first high-performance pulsed neutron source in China, which will meet the increasing fundamental research and technique applications demands domestically and overseas. A new distributed data…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-08-17 H. L. Tian , J. R. Zhang , L. L. Yan , M. Tang , L. Hu , D. X. Zhao , Y. X. Qiu , H. Y. Zhang , J. Zhuang , R. Du

A new muon-pion collection and transport system design using superconducting solenoids based on CSNS

A new muon and pion capture system is proposed for the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), currently under construction. Using about 4\% of the pulsed proton beam (1.6 GeV, 4 kW and 1 Hz) of CSNS to bombard a cylindrical graphite target…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Ran Xiao , Yanfen Liu , Wenzhen Xu , Xiaojie Ni , Ziwen Pan , Bangjiao Ye

A Femtosecond Neutron Source

The possibility to use the ultrashort ion bunches produced by circularly polarized laser pulses to drive a source of fusion neutrons with sub-optical cycle duration is discussed. A two-side irradiation of a thin foil deuterated target…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Macchi

Probing the gluonic structure of the deuteron with $J/\psi$ photoproduction in d+Au ultra-peripheral collisions

Understanding gluon density distributions and how they are modified in nuclei are among the most important goals in nuclear physics. In recent years, diffractive vector meson production measured in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-03-28 STAR Collaboration , M. S. Abdallah , B. E. Aboona , J. Adam , L. Adamczyk , J. R. Adams , J. K. Adkins , G. Agakishiev , I. Aggarwal , M. M. Aggarwal , Z. Ahammed , I. Alekseev , D. M. Anderson , A. Aparin , E. C. Aschenauer , M. U. Ashraf , F. G. Atetalla , A. Attri , G. S. Averichev , V. Bairathi , W. Baker , J. G. Ball Cap , K. Barish , A. Behera , R. Bellwied , P. Bhagat , A. Bhasin , J. Bielcik , J. Bielcikova , I. G. Bordyuzhin , J. D. Brandenburg , A. V. Brandin , I. Bunzarov , X. Z. Cai , H. Caines , M. Calderón de la Barca Sánchez , D. Cebra , I. Chakaberia , P. Chaloupka , B. K. Chan , F-H. Chang , Z. Chang , N. Chankova-Bunzarova , A. Chatterjee , S. Chattopadhyay , D. Chen , J. Chen , J. H. Chen , X. Chen , Z. Chen , J. Cheng , M. Chevalier , S. Choudhury , W. Christie , X. Chu , H. J. Crawford , M. Csanád , M. Daugherity , T. G. Dedovich , I. M. Deppner , A. A. Derevschikov , A. Dhamija , L. Di Carlo , L. Didenko , P. Dixit , X. Dong , J. L. Drachenberg , E. Duckworth , J. C. Dunlop , N. Elsey , J. Engelage , G. Eppley , S. Esumi , O. Evdokimov , A. Ewigleben , O. Eyser , R. Fatemi , F. M. Fawzi , S. Fazio , P. Federic , J. Fedorisin , C. J. Feng , Y. Feng , P. Filip , E. Finch , Y. Fisyak , A. Francisco , C. Fu , L. Fulek , C. A. Gagliardi , T. Galatyuk , F. Geurts , N. Ghimire , A. Gibson , K. Gopal , X. Gou , D. Grosnick , A. Gupta , W. Guryn , A. I. Hamad , A. Hamed , Y. Han , S. Harabasz , M. D. Harasty , J. W. Harris , H. Harrison , S. He , W. He , X. H. He , Y. He , S. Heppelmann , S. Heppelmann , N. Herrmann , E. Hoffman , L. Holub , Y. Hu , H. Huang , H. Z. Huang , S. L. Huang , T. Huang , X. Huang , Y. Huang , T. J. Humanic , G. Igo , D. Isenhower , W. W. Jacobs , C. Jena , A. Jentsch , Y. Ji , J. Jia , K. Jiang , X. Ju , E. G. Judd , S. Kabana , M. L. Kabir , S. Kagamaster , D. Kalinkin , K. Kang , D. Kapukchyan , K. Kauder , H. W. Ke , D. Keane , A. Kechechyan , M. Kelsey , Y. V. Khyzhniak , D. P. Kikoła , C. Kim , B. Kimelman , D. Kincses , I. Kisel , A. Kiselev , A. G. Knospe , H. S. Ko , L. Kochenda , L. K. Kosarzewski , L. Kramarik , P. Kravtsov , L. Kumar , S. Kumar , R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , J. H. Kwasizur , R. Lacey , S. Lan , J. M. Landgraf , J. Lauret , A. Lebedev , R. Lednicky , J. H. Lee , Y. H. Leung , N. Lewis , C. Li , C. Li , W. Li , X. Li , Y. Li , X. Liang , Y. Liang , R. Licenik , T. Lin , Y. Lin , M. A. Lisa , F. Liu , H. Liu , H. Liu , P. Liu , T. Liu , X. Liu , Y. Liu , Z. Liu , T. Ljubicic , W. J. Llope , R. S. Longacre , E. Loyd , N. S. Lukow , X. F. Luo , L. Ma , R. Ma , Y. G. Ma , N. Magdy , D. Mallick , S. Margetis , C. Markert , H. S. Matis , J. A. Mazer , N. G. Minaev , S. Mioduszewski , B. Mohanty , M. M. Mondal , I. Mooney , D. A. Morozov , A. Mukherjee , M. Nagy , J. D. Nam , Md. Nasim , K. Nayak , D. Neff , J. M. Nelson , D. B. Nemes , M. Nie , G. Nigmatkulov , T. Niida , R. Nishitani , L. V. Nogach , T. Nonaka , A. S. Nunes , G. Odyniec , A. 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Zbroszczyk , W. Zha , C. Zhang , D. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. P. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Z. J. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Zhang , J. Zhao , C. Zhou , Y. Zhou , X. Zhu , M. Zurek , M. Zyzak

The MCUCN simulation code for ultracold neutron physics

Ultracold neutrons (UCN) have very low kinetic energies 0-300 neV, thereby can be stored in specific material or magnetic confinements for many hundreds of seconds. This makes them a very useful tool in probing fundamental symmetries of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 G. Zsigmond

Efficient extraction of a collimated ultra-cold neutron beam using diffusive channels

We present a first experimental demonstration of a new method to extract a well-collimated beam of ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) from a storage vessel. Neutrons with too large divergence are not removed from the beam by an absorbing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Schmidt-Wellenburg , J. Barnard , P. Geltenbort , V. V. Nesvizhevsky , C. Plonka , T. Soldner , O. Zimmer

Neutrons from projectile fragmentation at 600 MeV/nucleon

The neutron emission in projectile fragmentation at relativistic energies was studied with the Large-Area-Neutron-Detector LAND coupled to the ALADIN forward spectrometer at the GSI Schwerionen-Synchrotron (SIS). Stable 124Sn and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-10-19 P. Pawłowski , J. Brzychczyk , N. Buyukcizmeci , H. T. Johansson , W. Trautmann , A. Wieloch , P. Adrich , T. Aumann , T. Barczyk , S. Bianchin , K. Boretzky , A. S. Botvina , A. Chbihi , J. Cibor , B. Czech , H. Emling , J. D. Frankland , M. Heil , A. Le Fèvre , Y. Leifels , J. Lühning , J. Łukasik , U. Lynen , Z. Majka , I. N. Mishustin , W. F. J. Müller , R. Ogul , H. Orth , R. Palit , D. Rossi , C. Schwarz , C. Sfienti , H. Simon , K. Sümmerer , H. Weick , B. Zwiegliński

Optimization of dd110 neutron generator output for boron neutron capture therapy

Boron neutron capture therapy is about a century old, but still current and active. In this treatment, a high absorption cross-section of boron is used for thermal neutrons and the excited state is decomposed into alpha and lithium ions.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 H. Donya , M. Umer

Ultracold neutron accumulation in a superfluid-helium converter with magnetic multipole reflector

We analyze accumulation of ultracold neutrons (UCN) in a superfluid-helium converter vessel surrounded by a magnetic multipole reflector. We solved the spin-dependent rate equation, employing formulas valid for adiabatic spin transport of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-05 O. Zimmer , R. Golub

Post-Acceleration Study for Neutrino Super-beam at CSNS

A post-acceleration system based on the accelerators at CSNS (China Spallation Neutron Source) is proposed to build a super-beam facility for neutrino physics. Two post-acceleration schemes, one using superconducting dipole magnets in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yang Wu , Jingyu Tang

Experimental study of ultracold neutron production in pressurized superfluid helium

We have investigated experimentally the pressure dependence of the production of ultracold neutrons (UCN) in superfluid helium in the range from saturated vapor pressure to 20bar. A neutron velocity selector allowed the separation of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-09-02 P. Schmidt-Wellenburg , J. Bossy , E. Farhi , M. Fertl , K. K. H. Leung , A. Rahli , T. Soldner , O. Zimmer

A fast-switching magnet serving a spallation-driven ultracold neutron source

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…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 S. Ahmed , E. Altiere , T. Andalib , M. J. Barnes , B. Bell , C. P. Bidinosti , Y. Bylinsky , J. Chak , M. Das , C. A. Davis , F. Fischer , B. Franke , M. T. W. Gericke , P. Giampa , M. Hahn , S. Hansen-Romu , K. Hatanaka , T. Hayamizu , B. Jamieson , D. Jones , K. Katsika , S. Kawasaki , T. Kikawa , W. Klassen , A. Konaka , E. Korkmaz , F. Kuchler , L. Kurchaninov , M. Lang , L. Lee , T. Lindner , K. W. Madison , J. Mammei , R. Mammei , J. W. Martin , R. Matsumiya , E. Miller , T. Momose , R. Picker , E. Pierre , W. D. Ramsay , Y. -N. Rao , W. R. Rawnsley , L. Rebenitsch , W. Schreyer , S. Sidhu , S. Vanbergen , W. T. H. van Oers , Y. X. Watanabe , D. Yosifov

Method of study of nanostructures by ultracold neutrons

We propose a new method to form very cold neutron (VCN) beams collimated and monochromatic without usual losses of flux by three or more orders in magnitude due to narrow line cutting from energy and angular spectra. To this purpose…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Serebrov , V. T. Lebedev , A. V. Lepekhin

ANNI - A pulsed cold neutron beam facility for particle physics at the ESS

Pulsed beams have tremendous advantages for precision experiments with cold neutrons. In order to minimise and measure systematic effects, they are used at continuous sources in spite of the related substantial decrease in intensity. At the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-20 Torsten Soldner , Hartmut Abele , Gertrud Konrad , Bastian Märkisch , Florian M. Piegsa , Ulrich Schmidt , Camille Theroine , Pablo Torres Sánchez

High-flux neutron generation by laser-accelerated ions from single- and double-layer targets

Contemporary ultraintense, short-pulse laser systems provide extremely compact setups for the production of high-flux neutron beams, such as those required for nondestructive probing of dense matter, research on neutron-induced damage in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Vojtěch Horný , Sophia N. Chen , Xavier Davoine , Vincent Lelasseux , Laurent Gremillet , Julien Fuchs

Neutrons from multifragmentation reactions

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…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-08-30 W. Trautmann , A. S. Botvina , J. Brzychczyk , N. Buyukcizmeci , I. N. Mishustin , P. Pawlowski , ALADIN2000 Collaboration

Nuclear data development at the European Spallation Source

Transport calculations for neutronic design require accurate nuclear data and validated computational tools. In the Spallation Physics Group, at the European Spallation Source, we perform shielding and neutron beam calculations to help the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-11 Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian , Douglas D. DiJulio , Günter Muhrer

Design of a $\mu$SR spectrometer with ultrahigh arrays at China Spallation Neutron Source

A new muon source has been proposed to conduct muon spin rotation/relaxation/resonance ($\mu$SR) measurements at China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS). Only 1 Hz of the CSNS proton beams (25 Hz in total) will be allocated for muon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-07 Jingyu Dong , Ziwen Pan , Tianyi Yang , Zebin Lin , Zhe Wang , Zhengyang He , Zhe Chen , Hantao Jing , Jingyu Tang , Jiandang Liu , Hongjun Zhang , Bangjiao Ye