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Design of the magnet system of the neutron decay facility PERC

  • 1. Physik-Department, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching (Germany)
  • 2. Technische Universitaet Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien (Austria)
  • 3. Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226, 69120 Heidelberg (Germany)
  • 4. Forschungs Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Lichtenbergstr. 1, 85748 Garching (Germany)
  • 5. Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet, Staudingerweg 7, 55128 Mainz (Germany)
  • 6. Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 avenue des Martyrs, CS 20156, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9 (France)
  • 7. Stefan-Meyer-Institut, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna (Austria)

Description

The PERC (Proton and Electron Radiation Channel) facility is currently under construction at the research reactor FRM II, Garching. It will serve as an intense and clean source of electrons and protons from neutron beta decay for precision studies. It aims to contribute to the determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark-mixing element Vud from neutron decay data and to search for new physics via new effective couplings. PERC's central component is a 12 m long superconducting magnet system. It hosts an 8 m long decay region in a uniform field. An additional high-field region selects the phase space of electrons and protons which can reach the detectors and largely improves systematic uncertainties. We discuss the design of the magnet system and the resulting properties of the magnetic field

Availability note (English)

Available online from: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921904007
Part of:
EPJ Web of Conferences, Proceedings of PPNS 2018 - International workshop on particle physics at neutron sources

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Publishing Information

Publisher
EDP Sciences
Imprint Place
Les Ulis (France)
ISBN
978-2-7598-9082-8
Imprint Title
EPJ Web of Conferences, Proceedings of PPNS 2018 - International workshop on particle physics at neutron sources
Imprint Pagination
v. 219 [311 p.]
Journal Page Range
p. 04007.p.1-04007.p.6

Conference

Title
International workshop on particle physics at neutron sources
Acronym
PPNS 2018
Dates
24-26 May 2018
Place
Grenoble (France)

Optional Information

Notes
48 refs.
Collaborations
PERC Collaboration