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  Fundamental Neutron Physics

  Our group conducts experiments, often in collaboration with university groups and other laboratories, to study the weak interactions of the neutron. This includes the neutron decay lifetime, decay angular correlations, and low energy neutron-nucleon interactions. This work has various consequences for cosmology, weak interactions physics, and tests of the Standard Model of particle physics.

Trapped ultracold neutrons picture

Online: September 2002
Last update: October 2003

Members

Scott Dewey

Tom Gentile

David Gilliam

Paul Huffman

Jeff Nico

Alan Thompson

Experiments

NIST Neutron Lifetime Experiment
Magnetic Trapping of Ultracold Neutrons
emiT: A Search for Time Reversal Invariance Violation in Polarized Neutron Decay
Neutron Spin Rotation
Polarized3 He
A New Experiment to Measure the Electron-Antineutrino (a) Coefficient in Neutron Decay
Absolute Neutron Fluence Determination
Measurement of the Spin-Proton Asymmetry from Polarized Neutron Decay