HighNESS conceptual design report: Volume II. the NNBAR experiment.
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2024

A key aim of the HighNESS project for the European Spallation Source is to enable cutting-edge particle physics experiments. This volume presents a conceptual design report for the NNBAR experiment. NNBAR would exploit a new cold lower moderator to make the first search in over thirty years for free neutrons converting to anti-neutrons. The observation of such a baryon-number-violating signature would be of fundamental significance and tackle open questions in modern physics, including the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry. This report shows the design of the beamline, supermirror focusing system, magnetic and radiation shielding, and anti-neutron detector necessary for the experiment. A range of simulation programs are employed to quantify the performance of the experiment and show how background can be suppressed. For a search with full background suppression, a sensitivity improvement of three orders of magnitude is expected, as compared with the previous search. Civil engineering studies for the NNBAR beamline are also shown, as is a costing model for the experiment.

Författare

V. Santoro

European Spallation Source (ESS)

Lunds universitet

O. Abou El Kheir

Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

D. Acharya

Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

M. Akhyani

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

K. H. Andersen

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

J.L. Barrow

Tel Aviv University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

P.M. Bentley

European Spallation Source (ESS)

M. Bernasconi

Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

M. Bertelsen

European Spallation Source (ESS)

Y. Beßler

Forschungszentrum Jülich

A. Bianchi

European Spallation Source (ESS)

G. Brooijmans

The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

L.J. Broussard

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

T. Brys

European Spallation Source (ESS)

M. Busi

Paul Scherrer Institut

D. Campi

Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

A. Chambon

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

J. Chen

Forschungszentrum Jülich

V. Czamler

Institut Laue-Langevin

P. P. Deen

European Spallation Source (ESS)

D.D. DiJulio

European Spallation Source (ESS)

E. Dian

Mirrotron Ltd

Centre for Energy Research

L. Draskovits

Centre for Energy Research

K. Dunne

Stockholms universitet

M. El Barbari

Forschungszentrum Jülich

M.J. Ferreira

European Spallation Source (ESS)

P. Fierlinger

Technische Universität München

V. T. Fröst

SWECO

B. Folsom

Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

European Spallation Source (ESS)

U. Friman-Gayer

European Spallation Source (ESS)

A. Gaye

European Spallation Source (ESS)

G. Gorini

Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

A. Gustafsson

SWECO

T. Gutberlet

Forschungszentrum Jülich

C. Happe

Forschungszentrum Jülich

X. Han

Spallation Neutron Source Science Center

Chinese Academy of Sciences

M. Hartl

European Spallation Source (ESS)

M. Holl

European Spallation Source (ESS)

A. Jackson

European Spallation Source (ESS)

E. Kemp

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Y. Kamyshkov

University of Tennessee

T. Kittelmann

European Spallation Source (ESS)

E. Klinkby

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

R. Kolevatov

ESS consultant

S. I. Laporte

Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

B. Lauritzen

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

W. Lejon

Stockholms universitet

R. Linander

European Spallation Source (ESS)

Mats Lindroos

European Spallation Source (ESS)

M. Marko

Centre for Energy Research

J. I. Márquez Damián

European Spallation Source (ESS)

T. C. McClanahan

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

B. Meirose

Lunds universitet

Stockholms universitet

F. Mezei

Mirrotron Ltd

K. Michel

European Spallation Source (ESS)

D. Milstead

Stockholms universitet

G. Muhrer

European Spallation Source (ESS)

A. Nepomuceno

Universidade Federal Fluminense

V. Neshvizhevsky

Institut Laue-Langevin

Thomas Nilsson

Chalmers, Fysik

U. Odén

European Spallation Source (ESS)

Tomás S. Plivelic

Max IV-laboratoriet

K. Ramic

European Spallation Source (ESS)

B. Rataj

Lunds universitet

European Spallation Source (ESS)

I. Remec

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

N. Rizzi

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

J. Rogers

University of Tennessee

E. Rosenthal

Forschungszentrum Jülich

L. Rosta

Centre for Energy Research

U. Rücker

Forschungszentrum Jülich

S. Samothrakitis

Paul Scherrer Institut

A. Schreyer

Helmholtz

J. R. Selknaes

European Spallation Source (ESS)

H. Shuai

Mirrotron Ltd

S. Silverstein

Stockholms universitet

William Snow

Indiana University

M. Strobl

Paul Scherrer Institut

M. Strothmann

Forschungszentrum Jülich

A. Takibayev

European Spallation Source (ESS)

R. Wagner

Institut Laue-Langevin

P. Willendrup

European Spallation Source (ESS)

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

S. Xu

European Spallation Source (ESS)

S. Yiu

Stockholms universitet

L. Yngwe

SWECO

A. R. Young

North Carolina State University

M. Wolke

Uppsala universitet

P. Zakalek

Forschungszentrum Jülich

L. Zavorka

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

L. Zanini

European Spallation Source (ESS)

O. Zimmer

Institut Laue-Langevin

Journal of Neutron Research

1023-8166 (ISSN) 1477-2655 (eISSN)

Vol. 25 3-4 315-406

Ämneskategorier

Acceleratorfysik och instrumentering

Subatomär fysik

DOI

10.3233/JNR-230951

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2024-06-07