Speaker
Dieter Ries
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
Description
The ultracold neutron (UCN) source at the Paul Scherrer Institut is being successfully operated since 2011 and has provided UCN for example to the nEDM experiment, which has placed the tightest constraints to date on the neutron's electric dipole moment in 2020. Currently the successor experiment n2EDM is being commissioned at the same position. At the second beam port, the neutron lifetime experiment $\tau$SPECT, developed at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, is currently being set up for data taking. $\tau$SPECT is the first neutron lifetime experimen using spin-flip loading and 3-dimensional magnetic storage of neutrons.
In this talk, the status of both experiments and first results from commissioning with neutrons will be presented.
Primary author
Dieter Ries
(Paul Scherrer Institut)
