2007/08/10 by P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, Schmidt-Wellenburg, P., P. Geltenbort +12
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #nucl-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0708.1373
ISINN 15 conference proceeding Article has been replaced due to minor orthographic changes
openalex publication_date 2007/08/10 · arxiv created 2007/08/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present the status of the development of a dedicated high density ultra-cold neutron (UCN) source dedicated to the gravitational spectrometer GRANIT. The source employs superthermal conversion of cold neutrons to UCN in superfluid helium. Tests have shown that UCN produced inside the liquid can be extracted into vacuum. Furthermore a dedicated neutron selection channel was tested to maintain high initial density and extract only neutrons with a vertical velocity component 20 cm/s for the spectrometer. This new source would have a phase-space density of 0.18 cm-3(m/s)-3 for the spectrometer.