Ultracold-neutron infrastructure for the gravitational spectrometer GRANIT
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The gravitational spectrometer GRANIT will be set up at the Institut Laue Langevin. It will profit from the high ultracold neutron density produced by a dedicated source. A monochromator made of crystals from graphite intercalated with potassium will provide a neutron beam with 8.9 Å incident on the source. The source employs superthermal conversion of cold neutrons in superfluid helium, in a vessel made from BeO ceramics with Be windows. A special extraction technique has been tested which feeds the spectrometer only with neutrons with a vertical velocity component v⊥ ≤ 20 cm/s, thus keeping the density in the source high. This new source is expected to provide a density of up to ρ = 800 cm for the spectrometer.
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