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most citedMeasurement of the permanent electric dipole moment of the neutron

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hep-ex2021★ 34 cited

The Search for with 10 Sensitivity: the Upgrade of the MEG Experiment

The MEG II Collaboration, Alessandro M. Baldini, Vladimir Baranov +67

The MEG experiment took data at the Paul Scherrer Institute in the years 2009--2013 to test the violation of the lepton flavour conservation law, which originates from an accidenta…

hep-ex2020★ 619 cited

Measurement of the permanent electric dipole moment of the neutron

C. Abel, S. Afach, N. J. Ayres +81

We present the result of an experiment to measure the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron at the Paul Scherrer Institute using Ramsey's method of separated oscillating magn…

physics.data-an2019★ 5 cited

Data blinding for the nEDM experiment at PSI

N. J. Ayres, G. Ban, G. Bison +42

Psychological bias towards, or away from, a prior measurement or a theory prediction is an intrinsic threat to any data analysis. While various methods can be used to avoid the bia…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 37 cited

Optically Pumped Cs Magnetometers Enabling a High-Sensitivity Search for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment

C. Abel, S. Afach, N. J. Ayres +57

An array of sixteen laser-pumped scalar Cs magnetometers was part of the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) experiment taking data at the Paul Scherrer Institute in 2015 and 201…

physics.ins-det2018★ 18 cited

Demonstration of sensitivity increase in mercury free-spin-precession magnetometers due to laser-based readout for neutron electric dipole moment searches

G. Ban, G. Bison, K. Bodek +31

We report on a laser based Hg co-magnetometer deployed in an experiment searching for a permanent electric dipole moment of the neutron. We demonstrate a more than five tim…

hep-ph2017★ 172 cited

Search for axion-like dark matter through nuclear spin precession in electric and magnetic fields

C. Abel, N. J. Ayres, G. Ban +45

We report on a search for ultra-low-mass axion-like dark matter by analysing the ratio of the spin-precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and Hg atoms for an a…