Measurements of ultracold neutron upscattering and absorption in polyethylene and vanadium
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E. I. Sharapov,1 C. L. Morris,2,* M. Makela,2 A. Saunders,2 Evan R. Adamek,3 Y. Bagdasarova,2 L. J. Broussard,2 C. B. Cude-Woods,3 Deion E. Fellers,2 Peter Geltenbort,4 S. I. Hasan,5 K. P. Hickerson,6 G. Hogan,2 A. T. Holley,3 Chen-Yu Liu,3 M. P. Mendenhall,6 J. Ortiz,2 R. W. Pattie, Jr.,7 D. G. Phillips II,7 J. Ramsey,2 D. J. Salvat,3 S. J. Seestrom,2 E. Shaw,2 S. K. L. Sjue,2 W. E. Sondheim,2 B. VornDick,7 Z. Wang,2 T. L. Womack,2 A. R. Young,7 and B. A. Zeck7 1Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia 2Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA 3Department of Physics, Indiana University, Indiana 47405-7105, USA 4Institut Laue-Langevin, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France 5Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, USA 6Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 7Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA (Received 5 June 2013; revised manuscript received 24 July 2013; published 3 September 2013)
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