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Startup of the high-intensity ultracold neutron source at the Paul Scherrer Institute

  • Bernhard Lauss
  • on behalf of the PSI UCN Project Team
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Abstract

Ultracold neutrons (UCN) can be stored in suitable bottles and observed for several hundreds of seconds. Therefore UCN can be used to study in detail the fundamental properties of the neutron. A new user facility providing ultracold neutrons for fundamental physics research has been constructed at the Paul Scherrer Institute, the PSI UCN source. Assembly of the facility finished in December 2010 with the first production of ultracold neutrons. Operation approval was received in June 2011. We give an overview of the source and the status at startup.

Keywords

Ultracold neutrons UCN Neutron source Ultracold neutron production and transport 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Bernhard Lauss
    • 1
  • on behalf of the PSI UCN Project Team
  1. 1.Paul Scherrer InstituteVilligen-PSISwitzerland

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