2017/09/19 by G. Zsigmond
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Benchmark (surveying) #Dipole #Electric dipole moment #Neutron #Neutron electric dipole moment #Nuclear engineering #Nuclear physics #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Quantum mechanics #Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies #Ultracold neutrons #nucl-ex #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.10.065
arxiv created 2017/09/19 · openalex publication_date 2017/11/04 · arxiv updated 2018/03/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Ultracold neutrons (UCN) have very low kinetic energies 0-300 neV, thereby can be stored in specific material or magnetic confinements for many hundreds of seconds. This makes them a very useful tool in probing fundamental symmetries of nature (for instance charge-parity violation by neutron electric dipole moment experiments) and contributing important parameters for the Big Bang nucleosynthesis (neutron lifetime measurements). Improved precision experiments are in construction at new and planned UCN sources around the world. MC simulations play an important role in the optimization of such systems with a large number of parameters, but also in the estimation of systematic effects, in benchmarking of analysis codes, or as part of the analysis. The MCUCN code written at PSI has been extensively used for the optimization of the UCN source optics and in the optimization and analysis of (test) experiments within the nEDM project based at PSI. In this paper we present the main features of MCUCN and interesting benchmark and application examples.