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Pendellosung Interferometry Probes the Neutron Charge Radius, Lattice Dynamics, and Fifth Forces

September 10, 2021
Author(s)
Benjamin J. Heacock, Robert W. Haun, Michael G. Huber, Albert Henins, Robert C. Valdillez, Takuhiro Fujiie, Katsuya Hirota, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Hirohiko Shimizu, Takuya Hosobata, Masahiro Takeda, Yutaka Yamagata
Structure factors describe how incident radiation is scattered from materials such as silicon and germanium and characterize the physical interaction between the material and scattered particles. We used neutron Pendellösung interferometry to make

Trapped electrons and ions as particle detectors

August 5, 2021
Author(s)
Jacob Taylor, Daniel Carney, Hartmut Haffner, David Moore
Electrons and ions trapped with electromagnetic fields have long served as important high- precision metrological instruments, and more recently have also been proposed as a platform for quantum information processing. Here we point out that these systems

Far-field interference of a neutron white beam and the applications to noninvasive phase-contrast imaging

April 21, 2021
Author(s)
Michael G. Huber, Daniel S. Hussey, Muhammad D. Arif, David L. Jacobson, Jacob LaManna, Wakana Ueno, Han Wen, Dmitry Pushin, Dusan Sarenac, David Cory, Houxun Miao, Takenao Shinohara, Joseph Parker
The phenomenon of interference plays a crucial role in the field of precision measurement science. Waveparticle duality has expanded the well-known interference effects of electromagnetic waves to massive particles. The majority of the wave-particle

Three Phase-Grating Moire Neutron Interferometer for Large InterferometerArea Applications

April 21, 2021
Author(s)
Michael G. Huber, D. Sarenac, D. A. Pushin, Houxun Miao, Daniel S. Hussey, D G. Cory, Muhammad D. Arif, David L. Jacobson, Jacob LaManna, Ben Heacock
We demonstrate a three phase-grating neutron interferometer as a robust candidate for large area interferometry applications and characterization of materials. This novel far- eld moire technique allows for broad wavelength acceptance and relaxed

Progress on the BL2 beam measurement of the neutron lifetime

April 17, 2021
Author(s)
Shannon M. Hoogerheide, Jimmy P. Caylor, Evan R. Adamek, Eamon S. Anderson, Ripan Biswas, B. E. Crawford, Christina DeAngelis, Maynard S. Dewey, N Fomin, David M. Gilliam, Kyle Grammer, G L. Greene, Robert W. Haun, Jonathan Mulholland, Hans Pieter Mumm, Jeffrey S. Nico, William M. Snow, F E. Wietfeldt, Andrew Yue
A precise value of the neutron lifetime is important in several areas of physics, including determinations of the quark-mixing matrix element |Vud|, related tests of the Standard Model, and predictions of light element abundances in Big Bang

Neutron Spin Rotation Measurements

April 15, 2021
Author(s)
Jeffrey S. Nico, Shannon Hoogerheide, Hans Pieter Mumm, Murad Sarsour, J Amadio, Eamon Anderson, Libertad Barron-Palos, Bret Crawford, Chris Crawford, D. Esposito, Walter Fox, I Francis, J Fry, Chris Haddock, Adam Holley, Kirill Korsak, J Lieers, S Magers, M. Maldonado-Velazquez, D Mayorov, T Okudaira, C Paudel, S Santra, H.M. Shimizu, William M. Snow, A. Sprow, K. Steen, H E. Swanson, John Vanderwerp, P. A. Yergeau
The neutron spin rotation (NSR) collaboration used parity-violating spin rotation of transversely polarized neutrons transmitted through a 0.5 m liquid helium target to constrain weak coupling constants between nucleons. While consistent with theoretical

Ra-224 activity, half-life, and 241 keV gamma ray absolute emission intensity: a NIST-NPL bilateral comparison

December 31, 2020
Author(s)
Denis E. Bergeron, Sean Collins, Leticia Pibida, Jeffrey T. Cessna, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Brian E. Zimmerman, Peter Ivanov, John Keightley, Elisa Napoli
The national metrology institutes for the United Kingdom and the United States have compared activity standards for 224Ra, an -particle emitter of interest as the basis for therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. Solutions of 224RaCl2 were assayed by absolute

Neutron Polarimetry Using a Polarized 3He Cell for the aCORN Experiment

November 16, 2020
Author(s)
Benjamin C. Schafer, W A. Byron, Wangchun Chen, B Collett, Maynard S. Dewey, Thomas R. Gentile, Md. T. Hassan, Gordon L. Jones, Alexander Komives, Fred E. Wietfeldt
The neutron polarization of the NG-C beamline at the NIST Center for Neutron Research was measured as part of the aCORN neutron beta decay experiment. Neutron transmission through a polarized 3He spin filter cell was recorded while adiabatic fast passage (

Position-dependent neutron detection efficiency loss in 3He gas proportional counters

August 22, 2020
Author(s)
Patrick N. Peplowski, Zachary W. Yokley, Madison Liebel, Shuo Cheng, Richard C. Elphic, Shannon Hoogerheide, David J. Lawrence, Jeffrey Nico
The position-dependent neutron detection response of a 3He gas proportional counter (GPC) was characterized using a collimated (3-mm-wide), monoenergetic 0.05 eV neutron beam. For neutrons incident on the GPC near the ends of the active region, the neutron

Determination of the isotopic change in nuclear charge radius from extreme-ultraviolet spectroscopy of highly charged ions of Xe

June 16, 2020
Author(s)
Yuri Ralchenko, Roshani Silwal, A. Lapierre, John Gillaspy, Joan M. Dreiling, S A. Blundell, Dipti Goyal, A. Borovik, Jr., G Gwinner, A.C.C. Villari, Endre Takacs
The electron beam ion trap (EBIT) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology was employed to measure the isotopic shift of the Na-like D 3s 2S1=2 3p 2P1=2;3=2, Mg-like 3s2 1S0 3s3p 1P1, Mg-like 3s2 1S0 3s3p 3P1, Al-like 3s23p 2P1=2 3s23p 2P3=2