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Investigation of the fundamental properties of the neutron, UCN physics

T. L. Yenik, M. A. Zakharov, V. L. Kuznetsov, G. V. Kulin, S. N. Mironov, A. Yu. Muzychka, A. Yu. Nezvanov, Yu. N. Pokotilovsky, A. V. Strelkov, E. S. Teimurov, A. I. Frank, W. I. Furman,
E. I. Sharapov, + 3 workers

• Development of the concept for the UCN source at the pulsed reactor.
• Design of a neutron moderator device for the UCN source at the pulsed reactor.
• Investigation of the possibility of constructing a radiation-resistant UCN neutron guide with losses and a fraction of non-mirror reflections ~10-3 per hit.
• Investigation of the possibility of implementing temporal focusing of slow neutrons.
• Development and construction of a new experimental facility for studying the recently observed phenomenon of unsteady heating of UCNs on surface acoustic waves.
• Design and development of the required experimental equipment to carry out an experiment to measure the extraction efficiency of very cold neutrons from a source with a specially designed reflector.
• Investigation of non-stationary quantum effects for slow neutrons as well.
• Simulation of the propagation of very cold neutrons (VCN) in various diamond nanopowders for
optimizing their parameters and increasing the efficiency of VCN extraction from the source.
• Investigation of the impact of the density of diamond nanopowders on the properties of slow neutron reflectors developed on their basis.
• Participation in the development of a project for the UCN source at the WWR-K reactor.

 

Search of the UCN heating on surface acoustic waves (SAW)