A modular apparatus for use in high-precision measurements of parity violation in polarized eV neutron transmission

Schaper, Danielle C.; Auton, Clayton; Barrón-Palos, Libertad; Borrego, Melvin Ted; Chavez, Andrew; Cole, Lillie; Crawford, Christopher B.; Curole, Jonathan; Dhahri, Hajer; Dickerson, Kelly A.; Doskow, Jak; Fox, Walter; Gervais, Michelle H.; Goodson, Boyd M.; Knickerbocker, Kelly L.; Jiang, Chenyang; King, Paul M.; Lu, Hao; Mocko, Michael; Olivera-Velarde, Daniela; Otero Munoz, Jorge Gabriel; Penttilä, Seppo I.; Pérez-Martín, Alberto; Short, B.; Snow, William M.; Steffen, Kyle; Vanderwerp, John; Visser, Gerard

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2020.163961

Title: A modular apparatus for use in high-precision measurements of parity violation in polarized eV neutron transmission

Journal Article · Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.163961· OSTI ID:1828704

Schaper, Danielle C. ^[1]; Auton, Clayton ^[2]; Barrón-Palos, Libertad ^[3]; Borrego, Melvin Ted ^[4]; Chavez, Andrew ^[4]; Cole, Lillie ^[5]; Crawford, Christopher B. ^[5]; Curole, Jonathan ^[2]; Dhahri, Hajer ^[5]; Dickerson, Kelly A. ^[2]; Doskow, Jak ^[2]; Fox, Walter ^[2]; Gervais, Michelle H. ^[5]; Goodson, Boyd M. ^[6]; Knickerbocker, Kelly L. ^[4]; Jiang, Chenyang ^[7]; King, Paul M. ^[8]; Lu, Hao ^[2];

^[4]; Olivera-Velarde, Daniela ^[9] more »

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States)
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States)
Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
Berea College, KY (United States)
Univ. of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN (United States)

We describe a modular apparatus for use in parity-violation measurements in epithermal neutron–nucleus resonances with high instantaneous neutron fluxes at the Manuel Lujan Jr. Neutron Scattering Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This apparatus is designed to conduct high-precision measurements of the parity-odd transmission asymmetry of longitudinally polarized neutrons through targets containing nuclei with p-wave neutron–nucleus resonances in the 0.1–10 eV energy regime and to accommodate a future search for time reversal violation in polarized neutron transmission through polarized nuclear targets. The apparatus consists of an adjustable neutron and gamma collimation system, a ³He-⁴He ion chamber neutron flux monitor, two identical cryostats for target cooling, an adiabatic eV-neutron spin flipper, a near-unit efficiency ⁶Li-⁷Li scintillation detector operated in current mode, a flexible CAEN data acquisition system, and a neutron spin filter based on spin-exchange optical pumping of ³He gas. We describe the features of the apparatus design devoted to the suppression of systematic errors in parity-odd asymmetry measurements. We describe the configuration of the apparatus used to conduct a precision measurement of parity violation at the 0.7 eV p-wave resonance in ¹³⁹La which employs two identical ¹³⁹La targets, one to polarize the beam on the p-wave resonance using the weak interaction and one to analyze the polarization.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 1828704

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1776924

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-19-30409; TRN: US2216306

Journal Information:: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 969; ISSN 0168-9002

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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