Investigation of titanium and polyethylene as UCN absorber materials with AbEx

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

Volumn 611, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 297-301

  Picker, R ^a   Altarev, I ^a   Amos, P ^a   Franke, B ^a   Geltenbort, P ^b   Gutsmiedl, E ^a   Hartmann, F J ^a   Mann, A ^a   Materne, S ^a   Muller A R ^a   Paul, S ^a   Stoepler, R ^a   Wirth, H F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

Fermi potential; Neutrons; UCN; Ultra cold neutrons

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER MATERIAL; ABSORBING EFFICIENCY; ABSORPTION MATERIAL; CRYOGENIC MATERIALS; DECAY LIFE-TIME; FERMI POTENTIAL; GRENOBLE; HIGH ENERGY; LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; NEUTRON STORAGE; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PENELOPE; SURFACE CONTAMINATIONS; SYSTEMATIC EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRAPPING POTENTIAL; ULTRA-COLD NEUTRONS;

EXPERIMENTS; FERMIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; STORAGE (MATERIALS); SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; THERMOPLASTICS; TITANIUM;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 71549167870     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.089     Document Type: Article

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