UCNτ: Study of Lifetime Measurement in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap

Alexander Saunders,J Vanderwerp,K Solberg,B Vorndick,C Cude,E Adamek,P L Walstrom ,S M Clayton ,S I Penttilä ,Daniel Salvat ,W Fox ,Gregory Manus ,M Makela ,Z Wang ,G E Hogan ,C L Morris ,S Sawtelle ,K P Hickerson ,J Ramsey ,D C Bowman ,C.-Y Liu ,Adam Holley ,A R Young

doi:10.1142/9789814571678_0014

UCNτ: Study of Lifetime Measurement in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap

Alexander Saunders, J Vanderwerp + Show 21 more

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814571678_0014

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Publication Date: Mar 27, 2014

Affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Indiana University Bloomington, North Carolina State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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The UCNtau project is intended to develop a new measurement of the neutron lifetime using ultra-cold neutrons (UCNs) stored in a magneto-gravitational trap. In this article, we will describe the development of the experiment so far, including the trap itself, the UCN transport and monitoring system, the neutron detection methods, and the Monte Carlo simulations that have been used to model these elements. Finally, we will describe the first systematic effects that we plan to study using this apparatus.

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