Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime with Ultracold Neutrons Stored in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap

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Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime with Ultracold Neutrons Stored in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap. / Ezhov, V. F.; Andreev, A. Z.; Ban, G.; Bazarov, B. A.; Geltenbort, P.; Glushkov, A. G.; Knyazkov, V. A.; Kovrizhnykh, N. A.; Krygin, G. B.; Naviliat-Cuncic, O.; Ryabov, V. L.

In: JETP Letters, Vol. 107, No. 11, 01.06.2018, p. 671-675.

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Ezhov, V. F. ; Andreev, A. Z. ; Ban, G. ; Bazarov, B. A. ; Geltenbort, P. ; Glushkov, A. G. ; Knyazkov, V. A. ; Kovrizhnykh, N. A. ; Krygin, G. B. ; Naviliat-Cuncic, O. ; Ryabov, V. L. / Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime with Ultracold Neutrons Stored in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap. In: JETP Letters. 2018 ; Vol. 107, No. 11. pp. 671-675.

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title = "Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime with Ultracold Neutrons Stored in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap",

abstract = "We report a measurement of the neutron lifetime using ultracold neutrons stored in a magneto-gravitational trap made of permanent magnets. Neutrons surviving in the trap after fixed storage times have been counted and the trap losses have continuously been monitored during storage by detecting neutrons leaking from the trap. The value of the neutron lifetime resulting from this measurement is τn = (878.3 ± 1.6stat ± 1.0syst) A unique feature of this experiment is the monitoring of leaking neutrons providing a robust control of the main systematic loss.",

author = "Ezhov, {V. F.} and Andreev, {A. Z.} and G. Ban and Bazarov, {B. A.} and P. Geltenbort and Glushkov, {A. G.} and Knyazkov, {V. A.} and Kovrizhnykh, {N. A.} and Krygin, {G. B.} and O. Naviliat-Cuncic and Ryabov, {V. L.}",

note = "Funding Information: We are indebted to T. Brenner for his assistance during the experiment. We thank F.J. Hartman, A. Mueller, S. Paul, R. Picker, A. Serebrov, and O. Zimmer for their contributions at an earlier stage of this project and E. Kats for useful discussions. This work was supported in part by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 07-02-00077-a), by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ECO-NET action 12649SH), and by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (project BLANC06-3-136829 “Onelix”). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, Pleiades Publishing, Inc. Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",

year = "2018",

month = jun,

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doi = "10.1134/S0021364018110024",

language = "English",

volume = "107",

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journal = "JETP Letters",

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publisher = "МАИК {"}Наука/Интерпериодика{"}",

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AU - Ban, G.

AU - Bazarov, B. A.

AU - Geltenbort, P.

AU - Glushkov, A. G.

AU - Knyazkov, V. A.

AU - Kovrizhnykh, N. A.

AU - Krygin, G. B.

AU - Naviliat-Cuncic, O.

AU - Ryabov, V. L.

N1 - Funding Information: We are indebted to T. Brenner for his assistance during the experiment. We thank F.J. Hartman, A. Mueller, S. Paul, R. Picker, A. Serebrov, and O. Zimmer for their contributions at an earlier stage of this project and E. Kats for useful discussions. This work was supported in part by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 07-02-00077-a), by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ECO-NET action 12649SH), and by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (project BLANC06-3-136829 “Onelix”). Publisher Copyright: © 2018, Pleiades Publishing, Inc. Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2018/6/1

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N2 - We report a measurement of the neutron lifetime using ultracold neutrons stored in a magneto-gravitational trap made of permanent magnets. Neutrons surviving in the trap after fixed storage times have been counted and the trap losses have continuously been monitored during storage by detecting neutrons leaking from the trap. The value of the neutron lifetime resulting from this measurement is τn = (878.3 ± 1.6stat ± 1.0syst) A unique feature of this experiment is the monitoring of leaking neutrons providing a robust control of the main systematic loss.

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