The new neutron decay spectrometer Perkeo III

B. Märkisch; H. Abele; D. Dubbers; F. Friedl; A. Kaplan; H. Mest; M. Schumann; T. Soldner; D. Wilkin

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.066

The new neutron decay spectrometer Perkeo III

B. Märkisch, H. Abele, D. Dubbers, F. Friedl, A. Kaplan, H. Mest, M. Schumann, T. Soldner, D. Wilkin

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We present the new large neutron decay spectrometer Perkeo III designed to study neutron β-decay in-beam. It offers largely improved statistics over its predecessor Perkeo II. When used with a pulsed neutron beam, leading sources of systematic errors in other experiments are strongly suppressed or eliminated. The instrument was commissioned in a first run at the high flux reactor of the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble. With a continuous polarized neutron beam, a neutron decay rate of 5 × 10⁴ s^{- 1} was obtained.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	216-218
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	611
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.066
State	Published - 1 Dec 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Beta decay
Cold neutrons
Weak interaction

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