Neutron lifetime experiment based on an accordion-like UCN storage volume coated with "Low Temperature Fomblin"

Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 351-356

  Yerozolimsky, B ^a   Steyerl, A ^b   Kwon, O ^b   Luschikov, V ^c   Strelkov, A ^c   Geltenbort, P ^d   Achiwa, N ^e   Pichlmaier, A ^f   Fierlinger, P ^f  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Neutron lifetime; Ultracold neutrons

Indexed keywords

COATING TECHNIQUES; DATA ACQUISITION; EXTRAPOLATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

NEUTRON LIFETIME; PER-FLUORINATED POLYMER; ULTRACOLD NEUTRONS (UCN);

NEUTRONS;

EID: 30444452507     PISSN: 1044677X     EISSN: 1044677X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6028/jres.110.052     Document Type: Article

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