Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Physics
The Upscattering Of Ultracold Neutrons From The Polymer (C6h12)N, Eduard I. Sharapov, Christopher L. Morris, Mark Makela, Andy Saunders, Evan R. Adamek, Leah J. Broussard, Chris B. Cude-Woods, Deion E. Fellers, Peter Geltenbort, Monika Hartl, Siraj I. Hasan, Kevin P. Hickerson, Gary E. Hogan, Anthony T. Holley, C. M. Lavelle, Chen-Yu Liu, Michael P. Mendenhall, Jose Ortiz, Robert W. Pattie, David G. Phillips, John Ramsey, Daniel J. Salvat, Susan J. Seestrom, Erik Shaw, Sky Sjue, Walter E. Sondheim, Brittany Vorndick, Zhehui Wang, Tanner L. Womack, Andrew R. Young, B. A. Zeck
The Upscattering Of Ultracold Neutrons From The Polymer (C6h12)N, Eduard I. Sharapov, Christopher L. Morris, Mark Makela, Andy Saunders, Evan R. Adamek, Leah J. Broussard, Chris B. Cude-Woods, Deion E. Fellers, Peter Geltenbort, Monika Hartl, Siraj I. Hasan, Kevin P. Hickerson, Gary E. Hogan, Anthony T. Holley, C. M. Lavelle, Chen-Yu Liu, Michael P. Mendenhall, Jose Ortiz, Robert W. Pattie, David G. Phillips, John Ramsey, Daniel J. Salvat, Susan J. Seestrom, Erik Shaw, Sky Sjue, Walter E. Sondheim, Brittany Vorndick, Zhehui Wang, Tanner L. Womack, Andrew R. Young, B. A. Zeck
Robert W. Pattie Jr.
It is generally accepted that the main cause of ultracold neutron (UCN) losses in storage traps is upscattering to the thermal energy range by hydrogen adsorbed on the surface of the trap walls. However, the data on which this conclusion is based are poor and contradictory. Here we report a measurement, performed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory UCN source, of the average energy of the flux of upscattered neutrons after the interaction of UCN with hydrogen bound in the semicrystalline polymer PMP (trade name TPX), [C6H12]n. Our analysis, performed with the mcnp code which applies …