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Superfluid helium based ultracold neutron source for the PIK reactor
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DOI: 10.21883/TP.2022.06.54425.21-22
Serebrov A. P. 1, Lyamkin V. A. 1, Fomin A. K. 1, Onegin M. S. 1
1Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Gatchina, Russia
Email: serebrov_ap@pnpi.nrcki.ru, lyamkin_va@pnpi.nrcki.ru, fomin_ak@pnpi.nrcki.ru, onegin_ms@pnpi.nrcki.ru
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The PIK reactor at NRC "Kurchatov Institute"-PNPI is going to be equipped with a high-flux Ultra Cold Neutron (UCN) source for fundamental physics researches. The UCN source will use superfluid helium, which will make possible to achieve the density of UCN 2.2·10^3 cm-3, that has not yet been achieved anywhere in the world. The UCN source will be installed on the GEK-4 channel, which will make possible to obtain a low value of heat influx to cryogenic vessels from reactor radiation. The heat removal from the UCN source vessel will be implemented by using a heat exchanger. The calculated UCN density in the EDM spectrometer chamber at the PIK is going to be 200 cm-3, which is 20 times higher than the existing UCN densities in the world. For a new UCN source based on superfluid helium, an extensive research program has been developed in field of the physics of fundamental interactions, including the search for a nonzero neutron EDM, precision measurement of the neutron lifetime, and search for mirror dark matter. Keywords: ultracold neutrons, neutron sources, superfluid helium, neutron EDM, neutron decay.
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