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Selected Works

Robert W. Pattie Jr.

Selected Works

2012

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A High-Field Adiabatic Fast Passage Ultracold Neutron Spin Flipper For The Ucna Experiment, Anthony T. Holley, Leah J. Broussard, J. L. Davis, Kevin Hickerson, Takeyasu M. Ito, Chenyu Liu, J. T. M. Lyles, Mark Makela, Russell R. Mammei, Michael P. Mendenhall, Charles L. Morris, R. Mortensen, Robert W. Pattie, Roger Rios, Andy Saunders, Andrew R. Young Jun 2012

A High-Field Adiabatic Fast Passage Ultracold Neutron Spin Flipper For The Ucna Experiment, Anthony T. Holley, Leah J. Broussard, J. L. Davis, Kevin Hickerson, Takeyasu M. Ito, Chenyu Liu, J. T. M. Lyles, Mark Makela, Russell R. Mammei, Michael P. Mendenhall, Charles L. Morris, R. Mortensen, Robert W. Pattie, Roger Rios, Andy Saunders, Andrew R. Young

Robert W. Pattie Jr.

The UCNA collaboration is making a precision measurement of the β asymmetry (A) in free neutron decay using polarized ultracold neutrons (UCN). A critical component of this experiment is an adiabatic fast passage neutron spin flipper capable of efficient operation in ambient magnetic fields on the order of 1 T. The requirement that it operate in a high field necessitated the construction of a free neutron spin flipper based, for the first time, on a birdcage resonator. The design, construction, and initial testing of this spin flipper prior to its use in the first measurement of A with UCN during …

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Measurement Of The Neutron -Asymmetry Parameter A0 With Ultracold Neutrons, Bradley Plaster, R. Rios, Thomas J. Bowles, Leah J. Broussard, Richard Carr, Steven Clayton, Scott Currie, Bradley W. Filippone, Peter Geltenbort, Kevin P. Hickerson, J. Todd Hoagland, Gary E. Hogan, B. Hona, Anthoney T. Holley, Takeyasu M. Ito, Chenyu Liu, Jingyang Liu, Mark Makela, J. W. Martin, Daniel Melconian, Michael P. Mendenhall, Charles L. Morris, R. Mortensen, Robert W. Pattie, Margaret L. Pitt, John C. Ramsey, R. Russell, Andy Saunders, R. Schmid, Susan J. Seestrom, Sky Sjue, Walter E. Sondheim, E. Tatar, B. Tipton, Robert B. Vogelaar, Brittany Vorndick, Christopher Wrede, Y. P. Xu, H. Yan, Andrew R. Young, J. Yuan Dec 2011

Measurement Of The Neutron -Asymmetry Parameter A0 With Ultracold Neutrons, Bradley Plaster, R. Rios, Thomas J. Bowles, Leah J. Broussard, Richard Carr, Steven Clayton, Scott Currie, Bradley W. Filippone, Peter Geltenbort, Kevin P. Hickerson, J. Todd Hoagland, Gary E. Hogan, B. Hona, Anthoney T. Holley, Takeyasu M. Ito, Chenyu Liu, Jingyang Liu, Mark Makela, J. W. Martin, Daniel Melconian, Michael P. Mendenhall, Charles L. Morris, R. Mortensen, Robert W. Pattie, Margaret L. Pitt, John C. Ramsey, R. Russell, Andy Saunders, R. Schmid, Susan J. Seestrom, Sky Sjue, Walter E. Sondheim, E. Tatar, B. Tipton, Robert B. Vogelaar, Brittany Vorndick, Christopher Wrede, Y. P. Xu, H. Yan, Andrew R. Young, J. Yuan

Robert W. Pattie Jr.

We present a detailed report of a measurement of the neutron β-asymmetry parameter A0, the parity-violating angular correlation between the neutron spin and the decay electron momentum, performed with polarized ultracold neutrons (UCN). UCN were extracted from a pulsed spallation solid deuterium source and polarized via transport through a 7-T magnetic field. The polarized UCN were then transported through an adiabatic-fast-passage spin-flipper field region, prior to storage in a cylindrical decay volume situated within a 1-T 2 × 2π solenoidal spectrometer. The asymmetry was extracted from measurements of the decay electrons in multiwire proportional chamber and plastic scintillator detector packages …

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