https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921904008
aCORN: Measuring the electron-antineutrino correlation in neutron beta decay
1 Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
2 Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323, USA
3 National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
4 DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135, USA
5 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA
a e-mail: few@tulane.edu
b e-mail: Current address: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
c e-mail: Current address: NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
d e-mail: Current address: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
Published online: 12 December 2019
The aCORN experiment uses a novel asymmetry method to measure the electron-antineutrino correlation (a-coefficient) in free neutron decay that does not require precision proton spectroscopy. aCORN completed two physics runs at the NIST Center for Neutron Research. The first run on the NG-6 beam line obtained the result a = 0.1090 +/- 0.0030 (stat) +/- 0.0028 (sys), the most precise to date. The second run on the new NG-C high flux beam line promises an improvement in precision to ¡ 2%. In addition we show that an improved measurement of the neutrino asymmetry (B-coefficient) can be made using the aCORN apparatus on a highly polarized neutron beam.
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