Next Generation Experiments to Measure the Neutron Lifetime - Proceedings Of The 2012 Workshop: Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop Next Generation ... Santa Fe, New Mexico, 9 - 10 November 2012 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9814571660 ISBN 13: 9789814571661

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2014

Synopsis

 

There is a great interest in improving the limits on neutron lifetime to the level of a precision of 0.1 s. The neutron lifetime is both an important fundamental quantity as well as a parameter influencing important processes such as nucleosynthesis (Helium production in the early universe) and the rate of energy production in the Sun.

Aiming to create a roadmap of R&D for a next generation neutron lifetime experiment that can be endorsed by the North American neutron community, the focus of the workshop was on experiments using traps that utilize ultracold neutrons and confinement by a combination of magnetic and/or gravitational interaction in order to avoid systematic uncertainties introduced by neutron interactions with material walls. The papers in this volume summarize the limitations of present experiments, the discussion of new experiments in planning stage, and the discussion of systematic effects that must be addressed to achieve a lifetime measurement at an accuracy of 0.1 second.

Cover image courtesy of Elena Fernández, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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There is a great interest in improving the limits on neutron lifetime to the level of a precision of 0.1 s. The neutron lifetime is both an important fundamental quantity as well as a parameter influencing important processes such as nucleosynthesis (Helium production in the early universe) and the rate of energy production in the Sun.

Aiming to create a roadmap of R&D for a next generation neutron lifetime experiment that can be endorsed by the North American neutron community, the focus of the workshop was on experiments using traps that utilize ultracold neutrons and confinement by a combination of magnetic and/or gravitational interaction in order to avoid systematic uncertainties introduced by neutron interactions with material walls. The papers in this volume summarize the limitations of present experiments, the discussion of new experiments in planning stage, and the discussion of systematic effects that must be addressed to achieve a lifetime measurement at an accuracy of 0.1 second.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9814571660
• ISBN 13: 9789814571661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 194
• Editor: Seestrom Susan J