تقرير
Precision Measurement of the Position-space Wave Functions of Gravitationally Bound Ultracold Neutrons
| العنوان: | Precision Measurement of the Position-space Wave Functions of Gravitationally Bound Ultracold Neutrons |
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| المؤلفون: | Kamiya, Y., Ichikawa, G., Komamiya, S. |
| المصدر: | Advances in High Energy Physics, Volume 2014, 859241 (2014) |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| المجموعة: | High Energy Physics - Experiment Physics (Other) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Atomic Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors |
| الوصف: | Gravity is the most familiar force at our natural length scale. However, it is still exotic from the view point of particle physics. The first experimental study of quantum effects under gravity was performed using a cold neutron beam in 1975. Following this, an investigation of gravitationally bound quantum states using ultracold neutrons was started in 2002. This quantum bound system is now well understood, and one can use it as a tunable tool to probe gravity. In this paper, we review a recent measurement of position-space wave functions of such gravitationally bound states, and discuss issues related to this analysis, such as neutron loss models in a thin neutron guide, the formulation of phase space quantum mechanics, and UCN position sensitive detectors. The quantum modulation of neutron bound states measured in this experiment shows good agreement with the prediction from quantum mechanics. Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2014/859241 |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02188 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.1504.02188 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2014/859241 |
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