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Nuclear Physics Seminar - Dieter Ries (Paul Scherrer Institute) "Experiments with ultracold neutrons at PSI"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Physics Department
Location
464 Loomis
Date
Oct 2, 2023   1:00 pm  
Speaker
Dieter Ries
Contact
Brandy Koebbe
E-Mail
bkoebbe@illinois.edu
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The ultracold neutron (UCN) source at the Paul Scherrer Institut is being successfully operated since 2011 and has provided UCN for example to the nEDM experiment, which has placed the tightest constraints to date on the neutron's electric dipole moment in 2020. Currently the successor experiment n2EDM is being commissioned at the same position. At the second beam port, the neutron lifetime experiment τSPECT, developed at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, is currently being set up for data taking. τSPECT is the first neutron lifetime experimen using spin-flip loading and 3-dimensional magnetic storage of neutrons. In this talk, the status of both experiments and first results from commissioning with neutrons will be presented.

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