Direct experimental limit on neutron-mirror-neutron oscillations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Ban, G ^a   Bodek, K ^b   Daum, M ^c   Henneck, R ^c   Heule, S ^c,h   Kasprzak, M ^c,i   Khomutov, N ^d   Kirch, K ^d   Kistryn, S ^b   Knecht, A ^c,h   Knowles, P ^e   Kuzniak M ^c,j   Lefort, T ^a   Mtchedlishvili, A ^c   Naviliat Cuncic, O ^a   Plonka, C ^f   Quemener G ^g   Rebetez, M ^e   Rebreyend, D ^g   Roccia, S ^g   Rogel, G ^a,f   Tur, M ^g   Weis, A ^e   Zejma, J ^b   Zsigmond, G ^c   more..

^a Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire   (France)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^f INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ STEFAN MEYER INSTITUTE FOR SUBATOMIC PHYSICS   (Austria)

^j PSI Villigen ^*  (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRON-MIRROR-NEUTRON OSCILLATIONS; ORDINARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; SUPERIMPOSED MAGNETIC FIELDS;

MAGNETIC FIELDS; NEUTRONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

PARTICLE BEAM DYNAMICS;

EID: 35348938164     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.161603     Document Type: Article

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