Evaluation of commercial nickel-phosphorus coating for ultracold neutron guides using a pinhole bottling method

Pattie. Jr., Robert Wayne; Adamek, Evan Robert; Brenner, Thomas; Brandt, Aaron; Broussard, Leah Jacklyn; Callahan, Nathan Brannan; Clayton, Steven M.; Cude-Woods, Chris; Currie, Scott Allister; Geltenbort, P.; Ito, Takeyasu M.; Lauer, Thorsten; Liu, Chen Yu; Majewski, Jaroslaw; Makela, Mark F.; Masuda, Yasohira; Morris, Christopher L.; Ramsey, John Clinton; Salvat, Daniel J.; Saunders, Alexander; Schroffenegger, Juri; Tang, Zhaowen; Wei, Wanchun; Wang, Zhehui; Watkins, Erik Benjamin; Young, Albert Raymond; Zeck, B. A.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.07.051

Evaluation of commercial nickel-phosphorus coating for ultracold neutron guides using a pinhole bottling method

Journal Article · Thu Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.07.051· OSTI ID:1375173

Pattie. Jr., Robert Wayne ^[1]; Adamek, Evan Robert ^[2]; Brenner, Thomas ^[3]; Brandt, Aaron ^[4]; Broussard, Leah Jacklyn ^[1]; Callahan, Nathan Brannan ^[2]; ^[1]; Cude-Woods, Chris ^[4]; ^[1]; Geltenbort, P. ^[3]; ^[1]; Lauer, Thorsten ^[5]; Liu, Chen Yu ^[2]; ^[1]; ^[1]; Masuda, Yasohira ^[6]; ^[1]; ^[1]; Salvat, Daniel J. ^[7]; ^[1] more »

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble Cedex (France)
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab. (TUNL), Durham, NC (United States)
Technical Univ. of Munich, Munich (Germany); Movatec GmbH (Germany)
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Ibaraki (Japan)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
Technical Univ. of Munich, Munich (Germany)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States); Triangle Univ. Nuclear Lab. (TUNL), Durham, NC (United States)

We report on the evaluation of commercial electroless nickel phosphorus (NiP) coatings for ultracold neutron (UCN) transport and storage. The material potential of 50μm thick NiP coatings on stainless steel and aluminum substrates was measured to be V_F=213(5.2)neV using the time-of-flight spectrometer ASTERIX at the Lujan Center. The loss per bounce probability was measured in pinhole bottling experiments carried out at ultracold neutron sources at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center and the Institut Laue-Langevin. For these tests a new guide coupling design was used to minimize gaps between the guide sections. The observed UCN loss in the bottle was interpreted in terms of an energy independent effective loss per bounce, which is the appropriate model when gaps in the system and upscattering are the dominate loss mechanisms, yielding a loss per bounce of 1.3(1)×10^–4. In conclusion, we also present a detailed discussion of the pinhole bottling methodology and an energy dependent analysis of the experimental results.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: LDRD; USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1375173

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1549745

Report Number(s):: LA-UR--17-20247

Journal Information:: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Journal Name: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Vol. 872; ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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