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Jericha E, Gösselsberger C, Abele H, et al. MONOPOL - A traveling-wave magnetic neutron spin resonator for tailoring polarized neutron beams. Sci Rep. 2020;10(1):5815doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62612-9.
Jericha, E., Gösselsberger, C., Abele, H., Baumgartner, S., Berger, B. M., Geltenbort, P., Hino, M., Oda, T., Raab, R., & Badurek, G. (2020). MONOPOL - A traveling-wave magnetic neutron spin resonator for tailoring polarized neutron beams. Scientific reports, 10(1), 5815. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62612-9
Jericha, Erwin, et al. "MONOPOL - A traveling-wave magnetic neutron spin resonator for tailoring polarized neutron beams." Scientific reports vol. 10,1 (2020): 5815. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62612-9
Jericha E, Gösselsberger C, Abele H, Baumgartner S, Berger BM, Geltenbort P, Hino M, Oda T, Raab R, Badurek G. MONOPOL - A traveling-wave magnetic neutron spin resonator for tailoring polarized neutron beams. Sci Rep. 2020 Apr 02;10(1):5815. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62612-9. PMID: 32242088; PMCID: PMC7118124.
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Sci Rep. 2020 Apr 02;10(1):5815. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62612-9.

MONOPOL - A traveling-wave magnetic neutron spin resonator for tailoring polarized neutron beams.

Scientific reports

Erwin Jericha, Christoph Gösselsberger, Hartmut Abele, Stefan Baumgartner, Bernhard Maximilian Berger, Peter Geltenbort, Masahiro Hino, Tatsuro Oda, Robert Raab, Gerald Badurek

Affiliations

  1. TU Wien, Atominstitut, Wien, 1020, Austria. [email protected].
  2. TU Wien, Atominstitut, Wien, 1020, Austria.
  3. Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, 38042, France.
  4. Kyoto University, Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kumatori, Osaka, 590-0494, Japan.

PMID: 32242088 PMCID: PMC7118124 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62612-9

Abstract

We report on first experimental tests of a neutron magnetic spin resonator at a very cold neutron beam port of the high flux reactor at the ILL Grenoble. When placed between two supermirror neutron polarizers and operated in a pulsed traveling-wave mode it allows to decouple its time- and wavelength-resolution and can therefore be used simultaneously as electronically tunable monochromator and fast beam chopper. As a first 'real' scientific application we intend its implementation in the PERC (p roton and e lectron r adiation c hannel) project related to high-precision experiments in neutron beta decay.

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