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most citedStorage of ultracold neutrons in the UCN magneto-gravitational trap

30 citations · 31 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.ins-det2026

FINESSE: A Versatile Beamline for Fundamental Interactions with Neutrons at the European Spallation SourcE

J. Amaral, J. Barrow, M. Bartis +71

FINESSE (A Versatile Beamline for \textbf{F}undamental \textbf{I}nteractions with \textbf{N}eutrons at the \textbf{E}uropean \textbf{S}pallation \textbf{S}ourc\textbf{E}) is a prop…

physics.ins-det2026

A gaseous-helium cooling system for silicon detectors in the Nab experiment

Love Richburg, Noah Birge, Nadia Fomin +40

The Nab experiment aims to extract the neutron beta decay correlation coefficients 'a' and 'b'. This will be accomplished using a 7 m tall electromagnetic spectrometer which measur…

physics.ins-det2025

From Commissioning to Precision Data-Taking: Resolving Operational Challenges in the Nab Detector Systems

L. J. Broussard, H. Acharya, R. Alarcon +36

Our understanding of the weak mixing of quarks, described by the Cabibbo Kobayashi Maskawa (CKM) matrix, currently presents an anomaly. Thanks to major strides in both theory and e…

physics.ins-det2025

Characterization of Low-energy Ionization Signals in Silicon Detectors for the Nab Experiment

R. J. Taylor, August Mendelsohn, Arlee Shelby +20

The Nab (Neutron a b) experiment is designed to measure the beta-antineutrino angular correlation in free neutron decay with an ultimate precision goal of 0.1%, providing input…

physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

A Novel, Steerable, Low-Energy Proton Source for Detector Characterization

Nicholas Macsai, August Mendelsohn, David Harrison +7

We report on the conversion of the Manitoba II mass spectrometer into a versatile low-energy proton beam facility. This infrastructure is adaptable to any detector-under-test (DUT)…

nucl-ex2025

First Full Dalitz Plot Measurement in Neutron -Decay using the Nab Spectrometer and Implications for New Physics

Francisco M. Gonzalez, Jin Ha Choi, Himal Acharya +89

Precision measurements of observables in neutron -decay are used to test the Standard Model description of the weak interaction and search for evidence of new physics. The Nab e…

nucl-ex2025

Fundamental Nuclear and Particle Physics At Neutron Sources

H. Abele, J. Amaral, W. R. Anthony +121

Fundamental neutron and neutrino physics at neutron sources, combining precision measurements and theory, can probe new physics at energy scales well beyond the highest energies pr…

physics.ins-det2013★ 30 cited

Storage of ultracold neutrons in the UCN magneto-gravitational trap

D. J. Salvat, E. R. Adamek, D. Barlow +29

The UCN experiment is designed to measure the lifetime of the free neutron by trapping ultracold neutrons (UCN) in a magneto-gravitational trap. An asymmetric bowl-shape…