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nucl-ex2024

Measurement of the Free Neutron Lifetime in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap with In Situ Detection

R. Musedinovic, L. S. Blokland, C. B. Cude-Woods +32

Here we publish three years of data for the UCNtau experiment performed at the Los Alamos Ultra Cold Neutron Facility at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. These data are in ad…

nucl-ex2024

An experimental search for an explanation of the difference between beam and bottle neutron lifetime measurements

M. F. Blatnik, L. S. Blokland, N. Callahan +32

The past two decades have yielded several new measurements and reanalysis of older measurements of the neutron lifetime. These have led to a 4.4 standard deviation discrepancy betw…

nucl-ex2023★ 1 cited

Fundamental Neutron Physics: a White Paper on Progress and Prospects in the US

R. Alarcon, A. Aleksandrova, S. Baeßler +88

Fundamental neutron physics, combining precision measurements and theory, probes particle physics at short range with reach well beyond the highest energies probed by the LHC. Sign…

nucl-ex2022

Fill and dump measurement of the neutron lifetime using an asymmetric magneto-gravitational trap

C. Cude-Woods, F. M. Gonzalez, E. M. Fries +39

The past two decades have yielded several new measurements and reanalyses of older measurements of the neutron lifetime. These have led to a 4.4 standard deviation discrepancy betw…

nucl-ex2021★ 2 cited

Improved neutron lifetime measurement with UCN

F. M. Gonzalez, E. M. Fries, C. Cude-Woods +41

We report an improved measurement of the free neutron lifetime using the UCN apparatus at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. We counted a total of approximately $38\…

nucl-ex2019★ 31 cited

Improved limits on Fierz Interference using asymmetry measurements from the UCNA experiment

Xuan Sun, E. Adamek, B. Allgeier +56

The Ultracold Neutron Asymmetry (UCNA) experiment was designed to measure the -decay asymmetry parameter, , for free neutron decay. In the experiment, polarized ultracold n…

nucl-ex2019★ 5 cited

Final results for the neutron -asymmetry parameter from the UCNA experiment

B. Plaster, E. Adamek, B. Allgeier +91

The UCNA experiment was designed to measure the neutron -asymmetry parameter using polarized ultracold neutrons (UCN). UCN produced via downscattering in solid deuterium w…

nucl-ex2018★ 1 cited

Measurement of the neutron lifetime using a magneto-gravitational trap

Nathan Callahan

Precision measurements of the free neutron lifetime , when combined with measurements of the axial vector form factor, can be used to test unitarity of the CKM matrix. Non-uni…

nucl-ex2018★ 50 cited

Search for dark matter decay of the free neutron from the UCNA experiment: n

X. Sun, E. Adamek, B. Allgeier +57

It has been proposed recently that a previously unobserved neutron decay branch to a dark matter particle () could account for the discrepancy in the neutron lifetime observed i…

nucl-ex2018★ 20 cited

A Search for Possible Long Range Spin Dependent Interactions of the Neutron From Exotic Vector Boson Exchange

Christopher C. Haddock, Joseph Amadio, Eamon Anderson +26

We present a search for possible spin dependent interactions of the neutron with matter through exchange of spin 1 bosons with axial vector couplings as envisioned in possible exte…

nucl-ex2017★ 174 cited

Measurement of the neutron lifetime using an asymmetric magneto- gravitational trap and in situ detection

R. W. Pattie, N. B. Callahan, C. Cude-Woods +35

The precise value of the mean neutron lifetime, , plays an important role in nuclear and particle physics and cosmology. It is a key input for predicting the ratio of protons…

nucl-ex2016★ 29 cited

A new method for measuring the neutron lifetime using an in situ neutron detector

C. L. Morris, E. R. Adamek, L. J. Broussard +28

The neutron lifetime is important in understanding the production of light nuclei in the first minutes after the big bang and it provides basic information on the charged weak curr…

nucl-ex2013★ 5 cited

Measurements of ultracold neutron upscattering and absorption in polyethylene and vanadium

E. I. Sharapov, C. L. Morris, M. Makela +27

The study of neutron cross sections for elements used as efficient ``absorbers'' of ultracold neutrons (UCN) is crucial for many precision experiments in nuclear and particle physi…

nucl-ex2010★ 65 cited

Determination of the Axial-Vector Weak Coupling Constant with Ultracold Neutrons

UCNA Collaboration, J. Liu, M. P. Mendenhall +37

A precise measurement of the neutron decay -asymmetry has been carried out using polarized ultracold neutrons (UCN) from the pulsed spallation UCN source at the Los Alamos…