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The n2EDM experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute

  • 1. University of Sussex, Brighton (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen, Caen (France)
  • 3. Paul Scherrer Institute - PSI, 5232 Villigen (Switzerland)
  • 4. Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland)
  • 5. Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, KU Leuven, 3001 Heverlee (Belgium)
  • 6. Laboratory for High Energy Physics and Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, Bern (Switzerland)
  • 7. Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Grenoble (France)
  • 8. University of Kentucky, Lexington (United States)
  • 9. Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich (Switzerland)
  • 10. Physics Department, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg (Switzerland)
  • 11. Institut fur Physik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet, Mainz (Germany)
  • 12. Henryk Niedwodniczanski Institute for Nuclear Physics, Cracow (Poland)
  • 13. Institut fur Kernchemie, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet, Mainz (Germany)
  • 14. CSNSM, Universite Paris Sud, Universite Paris Saclay, Orsay (France)
  • 15. Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin (Germany)

Description

We present the new spectrometer for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) search at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), called n2EDM. The setup is at room temperature in vacuum using ultracold neutrons. n2EDM features a large ultracold neutron (UCN) double storage chamber design with neutron transport adapted to the PSI-UCN source. The design builds on experience gained from the previous apparatus operated at PSI until 2017. With this new setup and conservative performance estimates based on the previous apparatus, we expect to reach a sensitivity of 1*10-27 e cm in 500 days of data collecting

Availability note (English)

Available online from: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921902002
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. 02002.p.1-02002.p.8

Conference

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

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
51094717
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS; MEASURING METHODS; NEUTRON SPECTROMETERS; NEUTRONS; SENSITIVITY; SPECIFICATIONS
Descriptors DEC
BARYONS; DIPOLE MOMENTS; ELECTRIC MOMENTS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEONS; SPECTROMETERS

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