학술논문

Characterization of the new Ultracold Neutron beamline at the LANL UCN facility
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A (2023) 168105
Subject
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Nuclear Experiment
Language
Abstract
The neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment that is currently being developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will use ultracold neutrons (UCN) and Ramsey's method of separated oscillatory fields to search for a nEDM. In this paper, we present measurements of UCN storage and UCN transport performed during the commissioning of a new beamline at the LANL UCN source and demonstrate a sufficient number of stored polarized UCN to achieve a statistical uncertainty of $\delta d_n = 2\times 10^{-27}$~$e\cdot\text{cm}$ in 5 calendar years of running. We also present an analytical model describing data that provides a simple parameterization of the input UCN energy spectrum on the new beamline.
Comment: 12 pages, 13 figures