Storage of ultracold neutrons in a volume coated with diamondlike carbon

F. Atchison, B. Blau, M. Daum, P. Fierlinger, P. Geltenbort, R. Henneck, S. Heule, M. Kasprzak, K. Kirch, K. Kohlik, M. Kuźniak, M. Meier, C.-F. Meyer, A. Pichlmaier, C. Plonka, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, B. Schultrich, Th. Stucky, V. Weihnacht, and O. Zimmer

Phys. Rev. C 74, 055501 – Published 9 November 2006

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Ultracold neutrons (UCN) with energy up to the Fermi potential were stored for the first time in a volume coated with diamondlike carbon. As a function of the UCN energy and wall temperature of the storage volume, we measured the wall loss parameter η and obtained $η = (3.1 \pm 0.9) \cdot 10^{- 4}$ at $T = 290$ K and $η = (1.8 \pm 0.2) \cdot 10^{- 4}$ at $T = 115$ K.

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.74.055501

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F. Atchison¹, B. Blau¹, M. Daum¹, P. Fierlinger^1,2,*, P. Geltenbort³, R. Henneck¹, S. Heule^1,2, M. Kasprzak^1,4, K. Kirch¹, K. Kohlik¹, M. Kuźniak^1,7, M. Meier¹, C.-F. Meyer⁵, A. Pichlmaier^1,†, C. Plonka³, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg^3,6,‡, B. Schultrich⁵, Th. Stucky⁵, V. Weihnacht⁵, and O. Zimmer⁶

¹PSI, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
²Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
³ILL, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
⁴SMI, Stefan-Meyer-Institut, Vienna, Austria
⁵IWS, Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik, Dresden, Germany
⁶TUM, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
⁷JU, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

^*Present address: Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
^†Corresponding author: Axel Pichlmaier, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland. Fax: +41 56 310 3120. Electronic address: axel.pichlmaier@psi.ch.
^‡Corresponding author: Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg, Physik Department E18 der Technischen Universität München, Germany, and Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France. Fax: +33 4 76 20 77 77. Electronic address: schmidt-w@ill.fr.

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Storage of ultracold neutrons in a volume coated with diamondlike carbon

F. Atchison, B. Blau, M. Daum, P. Fierlinger, P. Geltenbort, R. Henneck, S. Heule, M. Kasprzak, K. Kirch, K. Kohlik, M. Kuźniak, M. Meier, C.-F. Meyer, A. Pichlmaier, C. Plonka, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, B. Schultrich, Th. Stucky, V. Weihnacht, and O. Zimmer

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Storage of ultracold neutrons in a volume coated with diamondlike carbon

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