A proposed method for measuring the electric dipole moment of the neutron using acceleration in an electric-field gradient and ultracold neutron interferometry

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 396, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 181-197

  Freedman, M S ^a   Ringo, G R ^a   Dombeck, T W ^a,b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric; Interferometry; Moment; Neutron

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ELECTROSTATIC ACCELERATORS; INTERFEROMETRY;

ELECTRIC ACCELERATION; ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENT MEASUREMENT; PHASE DIFFERENCE GENERATORS; ULTRACOLD NEUTRON INTERFEROMETRY;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 0031232701     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(97)00737-7     Document Type: Article

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