Magnetic trapping of ultracold neutrons

Details Magnetic trapping of ultracold neutrons Magnetic trapping of ultracold neutrons

2001-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0103003v1

Phys.Rev. C63 (2001) 055502

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

17 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review C

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.63.055502

Three-dimensional magnetic confinement of neutrons is reported. Neutrons are loaded into an Ioffe-type superconducting magnetic trap through inelastic scattering of cold neutrons with 4He. Scattered neutrons with sufficiently low energy and in the appropriate spin state are confined by the magnetic field until they decay. The electron resulting from neutron decay produces scintillations in the liquid helium bath that results in a pulse of extreme ultraviolet light. This light is frequency downconverted to the visible and detected. Results are presented in which 500 +/- 155 neutrons are magnetically trapped in each loading cycle, consistent with theoretical predictions. The lifetime of the observed signal, 660 s +290/-170 s, is consistent with the neutron beta-decay lifetime.

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