Ultra-sensitive depolarization study of polarizing CoTi supermirrors with the opaque test bench

Physics Procedia

Volumn 42, Issue , 2013, Pages 99-105

  Klauser, Christine ^a,b   Bigault, Thierry ^a   Rebrova, Nataliya ^c   Soldner, Torsten ^a  

^a INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neutron beta decay; Neutron polarization; Polarizing supermirrors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902265396     PISSN: 18753884     EISSN: 18753892     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phpro.2013.03.181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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