Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 219, 2019
International Workshop on Particle Physics at Neutron Sources (PPNS 2018)
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Article Number | 07002 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Neutron Oscillations | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921907002 | |
Published online | 12 December 2019 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921907002
New search for mirror neutron regeneration
1 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
2 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
3 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
4 Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101, USA
5 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
a e-mail: broussardlj@ornl.gov
b This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this paper, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).
Published online: 12 December 2019
The possibility of relatively fast neutron oscillations into a mirror neutron state is not excluded experimentally when a mirror magnetic field is considered. Direct searches for the disappearance of neutrons into mirror neutrons in a controlled magnetic field have previously been performed using ultracold neutrons, with some anomalous results reported. We describe a technique using cold neutrons to perform a disappearance and regeneration search, which would allow us to unambiguously identify a possible oscillation signal. An experiment using the existing General Purpose-Small Angle Neutron Scattering instrument at the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will have the sensitivity to fully explore the parameter space of prior ultracold neutron searches and confirm or refute previous claims of observation. This instrument can also conclusively test the validity of recently suggested oscillation-based explanations for the neutron lifetime anomaly.
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