Magnetic-field uniformity in neutron electric-dipole-moment experiments

Magnetic-field uniformity in neutron electric-dipole-moment experiments

Magnetic-field uniformity is of the utmost importance in experiments to measure the electric dipole moment of the neutron. A general parametrization of the magnetic field in terms of harmonic polynomial modes is proposed, going beyond the linear-gradients approximation. We review the main undesirabl...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review. A 2019-04, Vol.99 (4), Article 042112
Hauptverfasser: Abel, C., Ayres, N. J., Baker, T., Ban, G., Bison, G., Bodek, K., Bondar, V., Crawford, C. B., Chiu, P.-J., Chanel, E., Chowdhuri, Z., Daum, M., Dechenaux, B., Emmenegger, S., Ferraris-Bouchez, L., Flaux, P., Geltenbort, P., Green, K., Griffith, W. C., van der Grinten, M., Harris, P. G., Henneck, R., Hild, N., Iaydjiev, P., Ivanov, S. N., Kasprzak, M., Kermaidic, Y., Kirch, K., Koch, H.-C., Komposch, S., Koss, P. A., Kozela, A., Krempel, J., Lauss, B., Lefort, T., Lemiere, Y., Leredde, A., Mohanmurthy, P., Pais, D., Piegsa, F. M., Pignol, G., Quéméner, G., Rawlik, M., Rebreyend, D., Ries, D., Roccia, S., Rozpedzik, D., Schmidt-Wellenburg, P., Schnabel, A., Severijns, N., Virot, R., Weis, A., Wursten, E., Wyszynski, G., Zejma, J., Zsigmond, G.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment
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Zusammenfassung:Magnetic-field uniformity is of the utmost importance in experiments to measure the electric dipole moment of the neutron. A general parametrization of the magnetic field in terms of harmonic polynomial modes is proposed, going beyond the linear-gradients approximation. We review the main undesirable effects of nonuniformities: depolarization of ultracold neutrons and Larmor frequency shifts of neutrons and mercury atoms. The theoretical predictions for these effects were verified by dedicated measurements with the single-chamber neutron electric-dipole-moment apparatus installed at the Paul Scherrer Institute.
ISSN:2469-9926
2469-9934
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.99.042112