Speaker
Mr
Dieter Ries
(PSI)
Description
The UCN source at the Paul Scherrer Institute is being successfully operated since 2011 and provides UCN at three beam ports, most importantly to the nEDM experiment.
We will explain the operation principle of the source and the way of UCN production.
The current status of the source and the progress made since start-up,
will be presented, together with ongoing optimisations and measurements to characterize individual subsystems.
In addition, comparisons between Monte Carlo Simulations of the full source setup and recent measurements will be shown.
This work is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under
grant number 200020_137664.
Summary
Operation principle and status of the PSI source for ultracold neutrons will be presented.
Primary author
Mr
Dieter Ries
(PSI)
