A new approach to the experiment intended to test the weak equivalence principle for the neutron

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 746; no. 1; pp. 12050 - 12054
• Main Authors: Zakharov, M.A., Kulin, G.V., Frank, A.I., Goryunovs, S.V., Kustov, D.V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.09.2016
• Subjects: Energy spectra; Equivalence principle; Experiments; Free fall; Neutron diffraction; Neutrons; Physics

A new approach to the free fall experiment with UCN is proposed. The idea is that the experiment is performed with neutrons from different equidistant lines of a discrete energy spectrum with a precisely known distance between the lines. Such a spectrum may be formed by neutron diffraction from a mo...