Author: Imajo, S.
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TUPEA012 Rebunching Ultracold Neutrons by Magnetic Deceleration for the neutron EDM experiment at J-PARC 1187
 
  • S. Imajo
    Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • Y. Arimoto
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • P.W. Geltenbort
    ILL, Grenoble, France
  • Y. Iwashita
    Kyoto ICR, Uji, Kyoto, Japan
  • M. Kitaguchi
    Kyoto University, Research Reactor Institute, Osaka, Japan
  • Y. Seki
    RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
  • H.M. Shimizu
    Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
  • T. Yoshioka
    Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
 
  Ultra cold neutrons (UCN) - neutrons with energies less than 300 neV - can be accelerated or decelerated by means of static magnetic and RF fields. Neutron have a magnetic dipole moment, and hence their kinetic energies vary depending on their spin in magnetic fields. Their kinetic energies are restored when they get out from the magnetic field area if their spin did not flip. A spin flip can be triggered by applying an RF field whose frequency coincides with the spin precession frequency of a neutron in this magnetic field. This allows to tune the kinetic energy of neutrons. This method can be used to rebunch a pulsed beam of neutrons to a storage bottle that can store UCN. By open and close the storage bottle synchronously with the rebuncher, high UCN densities can be achieved for precision measurements of neutron properties such as the Electric Dipole Moment. The method and experimental setup are described in detail and the results of a recent first test experiments are presented.