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Pattie R, Callahan N, Cude-Woods C, Adamek E, Adams M, Barlow D, Blatnik M, D. B, Broussard L, Clayton S, Currie S, Dees E, Ding X, Fellers D, Fox W, Fries E, Gonzalez F, Geltenbort P, Hickerson K, Hoffbauer M, Hoffman K, Holley A, Howard D, Ito T, Komives A, Liu C, M. M, Medina J, Morley D, Morris C, O'Connor T, Penttilä S, Ramsey J, Roberts A, Salvat D, Saunders A, Seestrom S, Sharapov E, Sjue S, Snow W, Sprow A, Vanderwerp J, Vogelaar B, P.L. W, Wang Z, Weaver H, Wexler J, Womack T, Young A, Zeck B. Status of the UCN τ experiment. EPJ Web Conf 2019. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201921903004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The neutron is the simplest nuclear system that can be used to probe the structure of the weak interaction and search for physics beyond the standard model. Measurements of neutron lifetime and β-decay correlation coefficients with precisions of 0.02% and 0.1%, respectively, would allow for stringent constraints on new physics. The UCNτ experiment uses an asymmetric magneto-gravitational UCN trap with in situ counting of surviving neutrons to measure the neutron lifetime, τn = 877.7s (0.7s)stat (+0.4/−0.2s)sys. We discuss the recent result from UCNτ, the status of ongoing data collection and analysis, and the path toward a 0.25 s measurement of the neutron lifetime with UCNτ.
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Blyth D, Fry J, Fomin N, Alarcon R, Alonzi L, Askanazi E, Baeßler S, Balascuta S, Barrón-Palos L, Barzilov A, Bowman JD, Birge N, Calarco JR, Chupp TE, Cianciolo V, Coppola CE, Crawford CB, Craycraft K, Evans D, Fieseler C, Frlež E, Garishvili I, Gericke MTW, Gillis RC, Grammer KB, Greene GL, Hall J, Hamblen J, Hayes C, Iverson EB, Kabir ML, Kucuker S, Lauss B, Mahurin R, McCrea M, Maldonado-Velázquez M, Masuda Y, Mei J, Milburn R, Mueller PE, Musgrave M, Nann H, Novikov I, Parsons D, Penttilä SI, Počanić D, Ramirez-Morales A, Root M, Salas-Bacci A, Santra S, Schröder S, Scott E, Seo PN, Sharapov EI, Simmons F, Snow WM, Sprow A, Stewart J, Tang E, Tang Z, Tong X, Turkoglu DJ, Whitehead R, Wilburn WS. First Observation of P-odd γ Asymmetry in Polarized Neutron Capture on Hydrogen. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 121:242002. [PMID: 30608729 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.242002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2018] [Revised: 10/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We report the first observation of the parity-violating gamma-ray asymmetry A_{γ}^{np} in neutron-proton capture using polarized cold neutrons incident on a liquid parahydrogen target at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A_{γ}^{np} isolates the ΔI=1, ^{3}S_{1}→^{3}P_{1} component of the weak nucleon-nucleon interaction, which is dominated by pion exchange and can be directly related to a single coupling constant in either the DDH meson exchange model or pionless effective field theory. We measured A_{γ}^{np}=[-3.0±1.4(stat)±0.2(syst)]×10^{-8}, which implies a DDH weak πNN coupling of h_{π}^{1}=[2.6±1.2(stat)±0.2(syst)]×10^{-7} and a pionless EFT constant of C^{^{3}S_{1}→^{3}P_{1}}/C_{0}=[-7.4±3.5(stat)±0.5(syst)]×10^{-11} MeV^{-1}. We describe the experiment, data analysis, systematic uncertainties, and implications of the result.
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- D Blyth
- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
- High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Magurele 077125, Romania
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000, Mexico
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- University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154, USA
| | - J D Bowman
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403 USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Physics Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
- Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39759, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37132, USA
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
- University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000, Mexico
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tukuba-shi, 305-0801, Japan
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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- Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403 USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000, Mexico
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400085, India
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
- Saarland University, Institute of Experimental Ophthalmology, Kirrberger Str. 100, Bldg. 22, 66424 Homburg/Saar, Germany
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA
- Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Russia
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403 USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA
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- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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Broussard LJ, Alarcon R, Baeßler S, Barrón Palos L, Birge N, Bode T, Bowman JD, Brunst T, Calarco JR, Caylor J, Chupp T, Cianciolo V, Crawford C, Dodson GW, DuBois J, Fan W, Farrar W, Fomin N, Frlež E, Fry J, Gericke MT, Glück F, Greene GL, Grzywacz RK, Gudkov V, Hendrus C, Hersman FW, Ito T, Li H, Macsai N, Makela MF, Mammei J, Mammei R, Martin J, Martinez M, McGaughey PL, Mertens S, Mirabal-Martinez J, Mueller P, Page SA, Penttilä SI, Picker R, Plaster B, Počanić D, Radford DC, Ramsey J, Rykaczewski KP, Salas-Bacci A, Scott EM, Sjue SKL, Smith A, Smith E, Sprow A, Stevens E, Wexler J, Whitehead R, Wilburn WS, Young AR, Zeck BA. Neutron decay correlations in the Nab experiment. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/876/1/012005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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