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

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nucl-ex2022★ 7 cited

Characterization of electroless nickel-phosphorus plating for ultracold-neutron storage

H. Akatsuka, T. Andalib, B. Bell +51

Electroless nickel plating is an established industrial process that provides a robust and relatively low-cost coating suitable for transporting and storing ultracold neutrons (UCN…

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-ex2019★ 5 cited

The neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source

K. K. H. Leung, M. Ahmed, R. Alarcon +90

Novel experimental techniques are required to make the next big leap in neutron electric dipole moment experimental sensitivity, both in terms of statistics and systematic error co…

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★ 80 cited

Search for the Neutron Decay n X+ where X is a dark matter particle

Z. Tang, M. Blatnik, L. J. Broussard +21

In a recent paper submitted to Physical Review Letters, Fornal and Grinstein have suggested that the discrepancy between two different methods of neutron lifetime measurements, the…

nucl-ex2017★ 97 cited

New result for the neutron -asymmetry parameter from UCNA

M. A. -P. Brown, E. B. Dees, E. Adamek +56

The neutron -decay asymmetry parameter defines the correlation between the spin of the neutron and the momentum of the emitted electron, which determines $λ=\frac{g_{A}}{g…

nucl-ex2017★ 21 cited

First direct constraints on Fierz interference in free neutron decay

K. P. Hickerson, X. Sun, Y. Bagdasarova +40

Precision measurements of free neutron -decay have been used to precisely constrain our understanding of the weak interaction. However the neutron Fierz interference term ,…

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-ex2015★ 10 cited

Measurement of spin-flip probabilities for ultracold neutrons interacting with nickel phosphorus coated surfaces

Z. Tang, E. R. Adamek, A. Brandt +12

We report a measurement of the spin-flip probabilities for ultracold neutrons interacting with surfaces coated with nickel phosphorus. For 50~m thick nickel phosphorus coated on…

nucl-ex2012★ 98 cited

Precision Measurement of the Neutron Beta-Decay Asymmetry

M. P. Mendenhall, R. W. Pattie, Y. Bagdasarova +38

A new measurement of the neutron -decay asymmetry has been carried out by the UCNA collaboration using polarized ultracold neutrons (UCN) from the solid deuterium UCN sour…

nucl-ex2012★ 49 cited

Measurement of the neutron -asymmetry parameter with ultracold neutrons

UCNA Collaboration, B. Plaster, R. Rios +43

We present a detailed report of a measurement of the neutron -asymmetry parameter , the parity-violating angular correlation between the neutron spin and the decay electron…

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…

nucl-ex2008★ 35 cited

First Measurement of the Neutron -Asymmetry with Ultracold Neutrons

R. W. Pattie

We report the first measurement of angular correlation parameters in neutron -decay using polarized ultracold neutrons (UCN). We utilize UCN with energies below about 200 neV, w…