Abstract
Diffraction enhancement of small effects affecting a neutron undergoing Laue diffraction at Bragg angles θB close to 90° is predicted and experimentally observed. The enhancement is due to the delay of the neutron inside the crystal during diffraction and is proportional to tan2θB. As a result, the diffraction enhancement factor may be as large as ∼108–109. On this basis, a new method is proposed for searching for the electric charge of the neutron and for measuring the ratio of its inertial mass mi to the gravitational mass mG. It is shown that the accuracy of the neutron charge measurement can be improved by more than two orders of magnitude in relation to the present-day accuracy and that the ratio mi/mG can be measured to an precision of σ(mi/mG) ∼ 10−6.
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