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Production of ultracold neutrons from cryogenic ²H₂, O₂, and C²H₄ converters

Atchison, F. ; Blau, B. ; Bodek, K. ; Brandt, B. van den ; Bryś, T. ; Daum, M. ; Fierlinger, P. ; Geltenbort, P. ; Hautle, P. ; Henneck, R. ; Heule, S. ; Holley, A. ; Kasprzak, Malgorzata ; Kirch, K. ; Knecht, A. ; Konter, J. A. ; Kuźniak, M. ; Liu, C.-Y. ; Pichlmaier, A. ; Plonka, C. ; Pokotilovski, Y. ; Saunders, A. ; Tortorella, D. ; Wohlmuther, M. ; Young, A. R. ; Zejma, J. ; Zsigmond, G.

In: EPL - Europhysics Letters, 2011, vol. 95, no. 1, p. 12001

Ultracold neutrons (UCN) have been produced using the cold neutron (CN) beam FUNSPIN at SINQ on cryogenic oxygen (O₂), tetradeuteromethane (C²H₄), and deuterium (²H₂) targets. The target cell (40 mm long, fiducial volume about 45 cm³) was operated between room temperature and 8 K and UCN were produced from gaseous, liquid and solid targets. UCN rates have been measured as a convolution...

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Towards a new measurement of the neutron electric dipole moment

Ban, G. ; Bodek, K. ; Daum, M. ; Henneck, R. ; Heule, S. ; Kasprzak, M. ; Khomytov, N. ; Kirch, K. ; Knecht, A. ; Kistryn, S. ; Knowles, Paul E. ; Kuzniak, M. ; Lefort, T. ; Naviliat-Cuncic, O. ; Pichlmaier, A. ; Plonka, C. ; Quéméner, G. ; Rebetez, Martin ; Rebreyend, D. ; Rogel, G. ; Sabirov, B. M. ; Tur, M. ; Weis, Antoine ; Zejma, J.

In: Hyperfine Interactions, 2006, vol. 172, no. 1-3, p. 41-43

Precision measurements of particle electric dipole moments (EDMs) provide extremely sensitive means to search for non-standard mechanisms of T (or CP) violation. For the neutron EDM, the upper limit has been reduced by eight orders of magnitude in 50 years thereby excluding several CP violation scenarios. We report here on a new effort aiming at improving the neutron EDM limit by two orders of...

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Direct experimental limit on Neutron–Mirror-Neutron oscillations

Ban, G. ; Bodek, K. ; Daum, M. ; Henneck, R. ; Heule, S. ; Kasprzak, M. ; Khomutov, N. ; Kirch, K. ; Kistryn, S. ; Knecht, A. ; Knowles, Paul E. ; Kuźniak, M. ; Lefort, T. ; Mtchedlishvili, A. ; Naviliat-Cuncic, O. ; Plonka, C. ; Quéméner, G. ; Rebetez, Martin ; Rebreyend, D. ; Roccia, S. ; Rogel, G. ; Tur, M. ; Weis, Antoine ; Zejma, J. ; Zsigmond, G.

In: Physical Review Letters, 2007, vol. 99, no. 16, p. 161603

In case a mirror world with a copy of our ordinary particle spectrum would exist, the neutron n and its degenerate partner, the mirror neutron n′, could potentially mix and undergo nn′ oscillations. The interaction of an ordinary magnetic field with the ordinary neutron would lift the degeneracy between the mirror partners, diminish the...