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A high dynamic range data acquisition system for a solid-state electron electric dipole moment experiment.
We have built a high precision (24-bit) data acquisition (DAQ) system capable of simultaneously sampling eight input channels for the measurement of the electric dipole moment of the electron. The DAQ system consists of two main components: a master board for DAQ control and eight individual analog-to-digital converter (ADC) boards for signal processing. This custom DAQ system provides galvanic isolation of the ADC boards from each other and the master board using fiber optic communication to reduce the possibility of ground loop pickup and attain ultimate low levels of channel cross-talk. In this paper, we describe the implementation of the DAQ system and scrutinize its performance.
118542460
Coherent Neutron Scattering in Polycrystalline Deuterium and its Implications for Ultracold Neutron Production
This paper presents a calculation of the neutron cross-sections in solid materials (used in practical neutron sources) with a large coherent scattering contribution. In particular, the dynamic structure function S(Q, !) of polycrystalline ortho-D2 is evaluated using a Monte-Carlo calculation that performs an average over scattering angles relative to crystal axes in random orientations. This method uses an analytical dispersion function with force constants derived from neutron scattering data of single crystal D2 in the framework of an axially symmetric force tensor. The resulting two dimensional map of S(Q, !) captures details of the phonon branches as well as the molecular rotations, that can be compared directly to data from inelastic neutron scattering on polycrystalline D2. This high resolution information is used to calculate the absolute cross-sections of production and upscattering loss of ultracold neutron (UCN). The resulting scattering cross-sections are significantly different, especially for UCN upscattering, from the previous predictions using the approach centered on the incoherent approximation.
118837551
New experimental limit on the electric dipole moment of the electron in a paramagnetic insulator
We report results of an experimental search for the intrinsic Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of the electron using a solid-state technique. The experiment employs a paramagnetic, insulating gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) that has a large magnetic response at low temperatures. The presence of the eEDM would lead to a small but non-zero magnetization as the GGG sample is subject to a strong electric field. We search for the resulting Stark-induced magnetization with a sensitive magnetometer. Recent progress on the suppression of several sources of background allows the experiment to run free of spurious signals at the level of the statistical uncertainties. We report our first limit on the eEDM of ( 5.57 ± 7.98 ± 0.12)×10 25 e·cm with 5 days of data averaging. The search for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of elementary particles is motivated to test the discrete symmetries assumed in the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. An account of the different transformation properties of the EDM (a polar vector) and the spin (a pseudo-vector), the fundamental physical laws governing particles must violate both time-reversal (T) and parity-inversion (P) symmetries for a fermion to acquire an EDM [1]. While the phenomena of P violation is firmly established in numerous experiments, T violation has only been observed directly in the neutral kaon system [2], with more searches in the B system underway [3]. Measurements of EDMs of elementary particles use different experimental techniques, often on low energy systems at Q ≃ 0, to probe the physics of T violation (with no flavor-changing) at energy scales higher than tens of TeV, and could provide information complementary to that from high-energy collider experiments on the nature of symmetry breaking. The physics of T violation is often linked, via the CPT theorem, to the violation of the combined Charge conjugate (C) and P symmetry. The only confirmed source of CP violation in the SM is the complex phase of the CKM matrix (that describes the quark mixing in charged-current weak interactions). With it, the electron EDM (eEDM) manifests through high-order loop couplings that involve flavor-changing quark interactions with the exchange of W ± weak bosons. The resulting size of eEDM predicted within the framework of SM is no larger than 10 −38 e·cm, which is well beyond the reach of current experimental techniques. The current experimental upper bound is established using thallium atomic beams with a sensitivity of 1.6×10 −27 e·cm [4]. New sources of CP violation introduced by theories beyond
119507247
Storage of Ultracold Neutrons in the Magneto-Gravitational Trap of the UCN Experiment
The UCN experiment is designed to measure the lifetime n of the free neutron by trapping ultracold neutrons (UCN) in a magneto-gravitational trap. An asymmetric bowl-shaped NdFeB magnet Halbach array confines low-field-seeking UCN within the apparatus, and a set of electromagnetic coils in a toroidal geometry provides a background holding field to eliminate depolarization-induced UCN loss caused by magnetic field nodes. We present a measurement of the storage time store of the trap by storing UCN for various times and counting the survivors. The data are consistent with a single exponential decay, and we find store = 860 19 s, within 1 of current global averages for n. The storage time with the holding field deactivated is found to be store = 470 160 s; this decreased storage time is due to the loss of UCN, which undergo Majorana spin flips while being stored. We discuss plans to increase the statistical sensitivity of the measurement and investigate potential systematic effects.
117801670
Ultra-cold Neutron Production in Anti-ferromagnetic Oxygen Solid
Spin waves, or magnons, in the anti-ferromagnetic $\alpha$ phase of solid oxygen provide a novel mechanism for ultra-cold neutron (UCN) production. Magnons dominate the energy exchange mechanisms for cold neutrons and UCN in solid $\alpha$-oxygen, much in the same way as do phonons in solid deuterium superthermal UCN sources. We present calculations of UCN production and upscattering rates in S-O$_2$. The results indicate that S-O$_2$ is potentially a much more efficient UCN source material than solid deuterium.
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Cold neutron energy dependent production of ultracold neutrons in solid deuterium.
A measurement of the production of ultracold neutrons from velocity-selected cold neutrons on gaseous and solid deuterium targets is reported. The expected energy dependence for two-particle collisions with well defined neutron and Maxwell-Boltzmann distributed molecular velocities is found for the gas target. The solid target data agree in shape with the phonon density-of-states curve and provide strong evidence for the phonon model including multiphonon excitations.
118586717
Generalized Lüscher formula in multichannel baryon-meson scattering
L\"uscher's formula relates the elastic scattering phase shifts to the two-particle energy levels in a finite cubic box. The original formula was obtained for elastic scattering of two massive spinless particles in the center of mass frame. In this paper, we consider the case for the scattering of a spin 1/2 particle with a spinless particle in multi-channel scattering. A generalized relation between the energy of two particle system and the scattering matrix elements is established. We first obtain this relation using quantum-mechanics in both center-of-mass frame and in a general moving frame. The result is then generalized to quantum field theory using methods outlined in Ref. \cite{Hansen:2012tf}. We verify that the results obtained using both methods are equivalent up to terms that are exponentially suppressed in the box size.
118963023
Strongly interacting Higgs sector in the minimal Standard Model
Abstract The triviality Higgs mass bound is studied with a higher derivative regulating in the spontaneously broken phase of the four dimensional O(4) symmetric scalar fiel-theory with quartic self-interaction. The phase diagram of the O(4) model is determined in a Monte Carlo simulation which interpolates between the hypercubic lattice regulator and the higher derivative regulator in continuum space-time. The same method can be used to calculate the Higgs mass bound in continuum space-time. In a large- N analysis, when compared with a hypercubic lattice, we find a relative increase in the triviality bound of the higher derivative regulator suggesting a strongly interacting Higgs sector in the TeV region with negligible dependence on regulator parameters. When the higher derivative regulator mass is brought close to the Higgs mass the model requires a more elaborate analysis of complex ghost states in scattering amplitudes.
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A SUPERSYMMETRIC MODEL FOR 17 KEV NEUTRINO
A supersymmetric model for accommodating the 17 KeV neutrino is proposed. The rank-two Majorana mass matrix for right-handed neutrinos can be obtained in a natural way. The neutrino spectrum is the same as that in the Glashow's model. The lifetime of the 17 KeV neutrino can satisfy the cosmological constraints.
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The Ginsparg-Wilson Lattice Chiral Fermion
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Charm program at BESIII
As of May, 2011, the Beijing Spectrometer III Experiment (known as BESIII) has accumulated 2.9 fb−1 of ψ(3770) data, which is about 3.5 times the previous largest ψ(3770) data set taken by the CLEO-c Experiment. Taking advantage of the high luminosity provided by the BEPCII collider, BESIII is expected to take much more data at both 3770 MeV and higher energies. Many high precision measurements, including CKM matrix elements related to charm weak decays, decay constants fD and fDs, form factors from D semileptonic decays, Dalitz decays, searches for CP violation, and absolute decay branching fractions, will be accomplished in the near future.As of May, 2011, the Beijing Spectrometer III Experiment (known as BESIII) has accumulated 2.9 fb−1 of ψ(3770) data, which is about 3.5 times the previous largest ψ(3770) data set taken by the CLEO-c Experiment. Taking advantage of the high luminosity provided by the BEPCII collider, BESIII is expected to take much more data at both 3770 MeV and higher energies. Many high precision measurements, including CKM matrix elements related to charm weak decays, decay constants fD and fDs, form factors from D semileptonic decays, Dalitz decays, searches for CP violation, and absolute decay branching fractions, will be accomplished in the near future.