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About the conference

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Preface 00001

S. Degenkolb, P. Geltenbort, T. Jenke, M. Jentschel, V.V. Nesvizhevsky, S. Roccia, T. Soldner, O. Zimmer, D. Rebreyend and A. Stutz

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50 years of Ultracold Neutrons

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Happy birthday, ultra-cold neutron! 01001

Hartmut Abele, Tobias Jenke and Hartmut Lemmel

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Searches for a Permanent Electric Dipole Moment

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nEDM experiment at PSI: Data-taking strategy and sensitivity of the dataset 02001

C. Abel, N.J. Ayres, G. Ban, G. Bison, K. Bodek, V. Bondar, E. Chanel, P.-J. Chiu, M. Daum, S. Emmenegger et al. (34 more)

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The n2EDM experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute 02002

C. Abel, N. J. Ayres, G. Ban, G. Bison, K. Bodek, V. Bondar, E. Chanel, P.-J. Chiu, B. Clement, C. Crawford et al. (38 more)

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A new limit of the ¹²⁹Xenon Electric Dipole Moment 02003

Fabian Allmendinger, Ilhan Engin, Olivier Grasdijk, Werner Heil, Klaus Jungmann, Sergei Karpuk, Hans-Joachim Krause, Benjamin Niederländer, Andreas Offenhäusser, Maricel Repetto et al. (3 more)

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The pulsed neutron beam EDM experiment 02004

Estelle Chanel, Zachary Hodge, Dieter Ries, Ivo Schulthess, Marc Solar, Torsten Soldner, Oliver Stalder, Jacob Thorne and Florian M. Piegsa

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The neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the Spallation Neutron Source 02005

K.K.H. Leung, M. Ahmed, R. Alarcon, A. Aleksandrova, S. Baeßler, L. Barrón-Palos, L. Bartoszek, D.H. Beck, M. Behzadipour, J. Bessuille et al. (82 more)

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The PanEDM neutron electric dipole moment experiment at the ILL 02006

David Wurm, Douglas H. Beck, Tim Chupp, Skyler Degenkolb, Katharina Fierlinger, Peter Fierlinger, Hanno Filter, Sergey Ivanov, Christopher Klau, Michael Kreuz et al. (17 more)

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Measurements of the Free Neutron Lifetime

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Monte Carlo simulations of a neutron lifetime experiment with a big gravitational trap 03001

Alexey Fomin and Anatolii Serebrov

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Progress on the BL2 beam measurement of the neutron lifetime 03002

Shannon F. Hoogerheide, Jimmy Caylor, Evan R. Adamek, Eamon S. Anderson, Ripan Biswas, Sai Meghasena Chavali, Bret Crawford, Christina DeAngelis, Maynard S. Dewey, Nadia Fomin et al. (13 more)

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New project for precise neutron lifetime measurement at J-PARC 03003

Naoki Nagakura, Katsuya Hirota, Sei Ieki, Takashi Ino, Yoshihisa Iwashita, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Ryunosuke Kitahara, Jun Koga, Kenji Mishima, Aya Morishita et al. (17 more)

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Status of the UCNτ experiment 03004

R.W. Pattie Jr., N.B. Callahan, C. Cude-Woods, E.R. Adamek, M. Adams, D. Barlow, M. Blatnik, Bowman D., L.J. Broussard, S. Clayton et al. (40 more)

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Studies of Neutron Beta Decay

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BRAND – Search for BSM physics at TeV scale by exploring transverse polarization of electrons emitted in neutron decay 04001

K. Bodek, L. De Keukeleere, M. Kolodziej, A. Kozela, M. Kuzniak, K. Lojek, M. Perkowski, H. Przybilski, K. Pysz, D. Rozpedzik et al. (4 more)

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The Nab experiment: A precision measurement of unpolarized neutron beta decay 04002

J. Fry, R. Alarcon, S. Baeßler, S. Balascuta, L. Barrón Palos, T. Bailey, K. Bass, N. Birge, A. Blose, D. Borissenko et al. (62 more)

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NoMoS: An R × B drift momentum spectrometer for beta decay studies 04003

Daniel Moser, Hartmut Abele, Joachim Bosina, Harald Fillunger, Torsten Soldner, Xiangzun Wang, Johann Zmeskal and Gertrud Konrad

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Final results for the neutron β-asymmetry parameter A₀ from the UCNA experiment 04004

B. Plaster, E. Adamek, B. Allgeier, J. Anaya, H.O. Back, Y. Bagdasarova, D.B. Berguno, M. Blatnik, J.G. Boissevain, T.J. Bowles et al. (84 more)

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Undetected electron backscattering in Perkeo III 04005

Christoph Roick, Heiko Saul, Hartmut Abele and Bastian Märkisch

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Towards a first measurement of the free neutron bound beta decay detecting hydrogen atoms at a throughgoing beamtube in a high flux reactor 04006

Wolfgang Schott, Erwin Gutsmiedl, Karina Bernert, Ralf Engels, Roman Gernhäuser, Stefan Huber, Igor Konorov, Bastian Märkisch, Stephan Paul, Christoph Roick et al. (2 more)

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Design of the magnet system of the neutron decay facility PERC 04007

Xiangzun Wang, Carmen Ziener, Hartmut Abele, Stefan Bodmaier, Dirk Dubbers, Jaqueline Erhart, Alexander Hollering, Erwin Jericha, Jens Klenke, Harald Fillunger et al. (21 more)

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aCORN: Measuring the electron-antineutrino correlation in neutron beta decay 04008

F.E. Wietfeldt, W.A. Byron, B. Collett, G. Darius, C.R. DeAngelis, M.S. Dewey, M.T. Hassan, G. Jones, A. Komives, M.P. Mendenhall et al. (2 more)

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Tests of Gravity, Dark Matter and Dark Energy

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What laboratory experiments can teach us about cosmology: A chameleon example 05001

Clare Burrage

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A search for deviations from the inverse square law of gravity at nm range using a pulsed neutron beam 05002

Christopher Haddock, Katsuya Hirota, Takashi Ino, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Kenji Mishima, Noriko Oi, Tatsushi Shima, Hirohiko Shimizu, W. Michael Snow and Tamaki Yoshioka

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Testing gravity at short distances: Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy with qBounce 05003

Tobias Jenke, Joachim Bosina, Gunther Cronenberg, Hanno Filter, Peter Geltenbort, Andrei N. Ivanov, Jakob Micko, Mario Pitschmann, Tobias Rechberger, René I.P. Sedmik et al. (2 more)

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Proof of principle for Ramsey-type gravity resonance spectroscopy with qBounce 05004

René I.P. Sedmik, Joachim Bosina, Lukas Achatz, Peter Geltenbort, Manuel Heiß, Andrey N. Ivanov, Tobias Jenke, Jakob Micko, Mario Pitschmann, Tobias Rechberger et al. (3 more)

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Dark side of the neutron? 05005

Bartosz Fornal and Benjamín Grinstein

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Neutron decay, dark matter and neutron stars 05006

D.H. Beck

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Dark decay channel analysis (n → χ + e⁺ e⁻) with the PERKEO II experiment 05007

Michael Klopf, Erwin Jericha, Bastian Märkisch, Heiko Saul, Torsten Soldner and Hartmut Abele

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Search for neutron dark decay: n → χ + e⁺e⁻ 05008

X. Sun, E. Adamek, B. Allgeier, M. Blatnik, T.J. Bowles, L.J. Broussard, M.A.-P. Brown, R. Carr, S. Clayton, C. Cude-Woods et al. (50 more)

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Neutron Optics

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Overview of neutron interferometry at NIST 06001

Michael G. Huber, Shannon F. Hoogerheide, Muhammad Arif, Robert W. Haun, Fred E. Wietfeldt, Timothy C. Black, Chandra B. Shahi, Benjamin Heacock, Albert R. Young, Ivar A.J. Taminiau et al. (3 more)

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Neutron spin rotation measurements 06002

M. Sarsour, J. Amadio, E. Anderson, L. Barrón-Palos, B. Crawford, C. Crawford, D. Esposito, W. Fox, I. Francis, J. Fry et al. (22 more)

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Neutron spin rotation effect at Laue diffraction in a weakly deformed and nonabsorbing crystal with no center of symmetry 06003

Vladimir Voronin, Valery Fedorov, Sergey Semenikhin and Yaroslav Berdnikov

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Study of neutron fundamental properties in the perfect crystal optics and diffraction 06004

V.V. Fedorov and V.V. Voronin

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Neutron Oscillations

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Statistical sensitivity of the nEDM apparatus at PSI to n − n′ oscillations 07001

C. Abel, N.J. Ayres, G. Bison, K. Bodek, V. Bondar, P.-J. Chiu, M. Daum, S. Emmenegger, P. Flaux, L. Ferraris-Bouchez et al. (27 more)

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New search for mirror neutron regeneration 07002

L.J. Broussard, K.M. Bailey, W.B. Bailey, J.L. Barrow, K. Berry, A. Blose, C. Crawford, L. Debeer-Schmitt, M. Frost, A. Galindo-Uribarri et al. (11 more)

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Plan of NNbar experiment at the WWR-M reactor 07003

Alexey Fomin, Anatolii Serebrov, Mikhail Chaikovskii, Oleg Zherebtsov, Aleksandr Murashkin and Elena Golubeva

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Search for neutron-hidden neutron interbrane transitions with MURMUR, a low-noise neutron passing-through-walls experiment 07004

Coraline Stasser, Michaél Sarrazin and Guy Terwagne

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Future searches for free and bound n → n̅ transformations 07005

Albert Young and Joshua Barrow

Published online: 13 December 2019

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Searches for eV-Neutrinos

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Search for light sterile neutrinos with the STEREO experiment 08001

Helena Almazán, Pablo del Amo Sanchez, Laura Bernard, Adrien Blanchet, Aurélie Bonhomme, Christian Buck, Ilham El Atmani, Jean Favier, Julia Haser, Victor Hélaine et al. (20 more)

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Searches for sterile neutrinos at the DANSS experiment 08002

Mark Shirchenko and Nataliya Skrobova

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Performance of the SoLid reactor neutrino detector 08003

Maja Verstraeten

Published online: 16 December 2019

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Searches for Time-Reversal-Violation in Nuclei

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Measurement of the angular distribution of γ-rays after neutron capture by ¹³⁹La for a T-violation search 09001

Takuya Okudaira, Hirohiko M. Shimizu, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Katsuya Hirota, Christopher C. Haddock, Ikuya Ito, Tomoki Yamamoto, Shunsuke Endo, Kohei Ishizaki, Takumi Sato et al. (14 more)

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Measurement of P-Violation in ¹³⁹La(n,γ)¹⁴⁰La – a first step towards a T-Violation search 09002

Tomoki Yamamoto, Hirohiko M. Shimizu, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Katsuya Hirota, Christopher C. Haddock, Shunsuke Endo, Kohei Ishizaki, Takumi Sato, Shusuke Takada, Jun Koga et al. (12 more)

Published online: 13 December 2019

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Measurement of the angular distribution of γ-rays emitted from the compound state after neutron capture by ⁸¹Br for a search of T-violation 09003

Shunsuke Endo, Hirohiko M. Shimizu, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Hirota Katsuya, Tomoki Yamamoto, Kohei Ishizaki, Takumi Sato, Tamaki Yoshioka, Shusuke Takada, Jun Koga et al. (4 more)

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Measurement of the angular distribution of prompt gamma-rays emitted in the ¹¹⁷Sn(n, γ) reaction for a T-violation search 09004

Jun Koga, Shusuke Takada, Tamaki Yoshioka, Hirohiko M. Shimizu, Katsuya Hirota, Norio Oi, Tomoki Yamamoto, Ikuya Ito, Kohei Ishizaki, Shunsuke Endo et al. (6 more)

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Instrumentation and Techniques

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Cryogenic design for a high intensity ultracold neutron source at TRIUMF 10001

Shinsuke Kawasaki, Takahiro Okamura and (TUCAN collaboration)

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Development of a powerful UCN source at PNPI's WWR-M reactor 10002

Anatolii Serebrov, Vitalii Liamkin, Aleksey Fomin, Valeriy Pusenkov, Konstantin Keshishev, Sergey Boldarev, Dmitriy Prudnikov, Artem Oprev, Oleg Samodurov, Artem Koptyuhov and Vladimir Ilatovskiy

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ANNI – A pulsed cold neutron beam facility for particle physics at the ESS 10003

Torsten Soldner, Hartmut Abele, Gertrud Konrad, Bastian Märkisch, Florian M. Piegsa, Ulrich Schmidt, Camille Theroine and Pablo Torres Sánchez

Published online: 12 December 2019

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Precision neutron flux measurement using the Alpha-Gamma device 10004

Evan R. Adamek, Maynard S. Dewey, Nadia Fomin, David M. Gilliam, Geoffrey L. Greene, Shannon F. Hoogerheide, Hans P. Mumm, Jeffrey S. Nico and William M. Snow

Published online: 12 December 2019

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Neutron scattering cross section of diamond nanoparticles 10005

Kenji Mishima, Toshiya Otomo, Kazutaka Ikeda and Hidetoshi Ohshita

Published online: 12 December 2019

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A novel broad-band neutron spin filter based on dynamically polarized protons using photo-excited triplet states 10006

Yifan Quan, Nemanja Nekitic, Ben van den Brandt and Patrick Hautle

Published online: 12 December 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921910006

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Oscillating ultra-cold neutron spectrometer 10007

D. Rozpedzik, K. Bodek, B. Lauss, D. Ries, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg and G. Zsigmond

Published online: 12 December 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921910007

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3D printed magnets for neutron spin manipulation 10008

Richard Wagner, Laurids Brandl, Wenzel Kersten, Stephan Sponar, Yuji Hasegawa, Christian Huber, Florian Bruckner and Dieter Suess

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921910008

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