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Testing isotropy of the universe using the Ramsey resonance technique on ultracold neutron spins

Altarev, I. ; Ban, G. ; Bison, Georg ; Bodek, K. ; Daum, M. ; Fertl, M. ; Fierlinger, P. ; Franke, B. ; Gutsmiedl, E. ; Heil, W. ; Henneck, R. ; Horras, M. ; Khomutov, N. ; Kirch, K. ; Kistryn, S. ; Kraft, A. ; Knecht, A. ; Knowles, Paul E. ; Kozela, A. ; Lauer, T. ; Lauss, B. ; Lefort, T. ; Lemière, Y. ; Mtchedlishvili, A. ; Naviliat-Cuncic, O. ; Pazgalev, Anatoly S. ; Petzoldt, G. ; Piegsa, F.M. ; Pierre, E. ; Pignol, G. ; Quéméner, G. ; Rebetez, M. ; Rebreyend, D. ; Roccia, S. ; Schmidt-Wellenburg, P. ; Severijns, N. ; Sobolev, Yu. ; Weis, Antoine ; Zejma, J. ; Zenner, J. ; Zsigmond, G.

In: Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2011, vol. 406, no. 12, p. 2365-2369

Physics at the Planck scale could be revealed by looking for tiny violations of fundamental symmetries in low energy experiments. In 2008, a sensitive test of the isotropy of the universe has been performed with stored ultracold neutrons (UCN), this is the first clock-comparison experiment performed with free neutrons. During several days we monitored the Larmor frequency of neutron spins in a...

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The search for the neutron electric dipole moment at the Paul Scherrer Institute

Baker, C.A. ; Ban, G. ; Bodek, K. ; Burghoff, M. ; Chowdhuri, Z. ; Daum, M. ; Fertl, M. ; Franke, B. ; Geltenbort, P. ; Green, K. ; Grinten, M.G.D. van der ; Gutsmiedl, E. ; Harris, P.G. ; Henneck, R. ; Iaydjiev, P. ; Ivanov, S.N. ; Khomutov, N. ; Kasprzak, Malgorzata ; Kirch, K. ; Kistryn, S. ; Knappe-Gr̈uneberg, S. ; Knecht, A. ; Knowles, Paul E. ; Kozela, A. ; Lauss, B. ; Lefort, T. ; Lemière, Y. ; Naviliat-Cuncic, O. ; Pendlebury, J.M. ; Pierre, E. ; Piegsa, F.M. ; Pignol, G. ; Quéméner, G. ; Roccia, S. ; Schmidt-Wellenburg, P. ; Shiers, D. ; Smith, K.F. ; Schnabel, A. ; Trahms, L. ; Weis, Antoine ; Zejma, J. ; Zenner, J. ; Zsigmond, G.

In: Physics Procedia, 2011, vol. 17, p. 159-167

The measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) constrains the contribution of CP-violating terms within both the Standard Model and its extensions. The experiment uses ultracold neutrons (UCN) stored in vacuum at room temperature. This technique provided the last (and best) limit by the RAL/Sussex/ILL collaboration in 2006: dn < 2:9 × 10⁻²⁶ e cm (90% C.L.). We aim to improve...