Measurements of ultracold neutron upscattering and absorption in polyethylene and vanadium
| Autor: | Mark Makela, Jose Ortiz, B. A. Zeck, M. P. Mendenhall, Tanner L. Womack, Deon E Fellers, Evan R. Adamek, C. Cude-Woods, Sky Sjue, A. R. Young, John Ramsey, Andy Saunders, A. T. Holley, S. J. Seestrom, Peter Geltenbort, Kevin Hickerson, B. VornDick, Chen-Yu Liu, Leah Broussard, Y. Bagdasarova, Zhehui Wang, D. G. Phillips, D. J. Salvat, Siraj I. Hasan, E. I. Sharapov, Robert W. Pattie, Gary E. Hogan, W. E. Sondheim, Charles L. Morris, E. Shaw |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics Hydrogen Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena FOS: Physical sciences Vanadium chemistry.chemical_element Context (language use) Inelastic neutron scattering Nuclear physics chemistry Thermal Ultracold neutrons Neutron Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) Nuclear Experiment |
| Zdroj: | 'Physical Review C ', vol: 88, pages: 037601-1-037601-4 (2013) |
| Popis: | The study of neutron cross sections for elements used as efficient ``absorbers'' of ultracold neutrons (UCN) is crucial for many precision experiments in nuclear and particle physics, cosmology and gravity. In this context, ``absorption'' includes both the capture and upscattering of neutrons to the energies above the UCN energy region. The available data, especially for hydrogen, do not agree between themselves or with the theory. In this report we describe measurements performed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory UCN facility of the UCN upscattering cross sections for vanadium and for hydrogen in CH$_2$ using simultaneous measurements of the radiative capture cross sections for these elements. We measured $\sigma_{up}=1972\pm130$ b for hydrogen in CH$_2$, which is below theoretical expectations, and $\sigma_{up} < 25\pm9$ b for vanadium, in agreement with the expectation for the neutron heating by thermal excitations in solids. Comment: 6 pages 2 figures |
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