TY - JOUR
T1 - Additional results from the first dedicated search for neutron-mirror neutron oscillations
AU - Bodek, K.
AU - Kistryn, St
AU - Kuźniak, M.
AU - Zejma, J.
AU - Burghoff, M.
AU - Knappe-Grüneberg, S.
AU - Sander-Thoemmes, T.
AU - Schnabel, A.
AU - Trahms, L.
AU - Ban, G.
AU - Lefort, T.
AU - Naviliat-Cuncic, O.
AU - Khomutov, N.
AU - Knowles, P.
AU - Pazgalev, A. S.
AU - Weis, A.
AU - Rogel, G.
AU - Quéméner, G.
AU - Rebreyend, D.
AU - Roccia, S.
AU - Bison, G.
AU - Severijns, N.
AU - Eberhardt, K.
AU - Hampel, G.
AU - Heil, W.
AU - Kratz, J. V.
AU - Lauer, T.
AU - Plonka-Spehr, C.
AU - Sobolev, Yu
AU - Wiehl, N.
AU - Altarev, I.
AU - Fierlinger, P.
AU - Gutsmiedl, E.
AU - Paul, S.
AU - Stoepler, R.
AU - Daum, M.
AU - Henneck, R.
AU - Kirch, K.
AU - Knecht, A.
AU - Lauss, B.
AU - Mtchedlishvili, A.
AU - Petzoldt, G.
AU - Zsigmond, G.
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - The existence of a mirror world holding a copy of our ordinary particle spectrum could lead to oscillations between the neutron (n) and its mirror partner (n′). Such oscillations could manifest themselves in storage experiments with ultracold neutrons whose storage lifetime would depend on the applied magnetic field. Here, extended details and measurements from the first dedicated experimental search for nn′ oscillations published in [G. Ban, K. Bodek, M. Daum, R. Henneck, S. Heule, M. Kasprzak, N. Khomutov, K. Kirch, S. Kistryn, A. Knecht, P. Knowles, M. Kuźniak, T. Lefort, A. Mtchedlishvili, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, C. Plonka, G. Quéméner, M. Rebetez, D. Rebreyend, S. Roccia, G. Rogel, M. Tur, A. Weis, J. Zejma, G. Zsigmond, Direct experimental limit on neutron mirror-neutron oscillations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 161603] will be presented, focussing on a possible dependence of the UCN counts on the magnetic field and its direction. However, at present no significant change in the averaged UCN counts with respect to the applied magnetic field has been found.
AB - The existence of a mirror world holding a copy of our ordinary particle spectrum could lead to oscillations between the neutron (n) and its mirror partner (n′). Such oscillations could manifest themselves in storage experiments with ultracold neutrons whose storage lifetime would depend on the applied magnetic field. Here, extended details and measurements from the first dedicated experimental search for nn′ oscillations published in [G. Ban, K. Bodek, M. Daum, R. Henneck, S. Heule, M. Kasprzak, N. Khomutov, K. Kirch, S. Kistryn, A. Knecht, P. Knowles, M. Kuźniak, T. Lefort, A. Mtchedlishvili, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, C. Plonka, G. Quéméner, M. Rebetez, D. Rebreyend, S. Roccia, G. Rogel, M. Tur, A. Weis, J. Zejma, G. Zsigmond, Direct experimental limit on neutron mirror-neutron oscillations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (2007) 161603] will be presented, focussing on a possible dependence of the UCN counts on the magnetic field and its direction. However, at present no significant change in the averaged UCN counts with respect to the applied magnetic field has been found.
KW - Mirror neutrons
KW - Neutron oscillations
KW - Ultracold neutrons
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=71549167304&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.047
DO - 10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.047
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:71549167304
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 611
SP - 141
EP - 143
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
IS - 2-3
ER -