The pNab experiment and the quest for ever better neutron beam polarization
S. Baessler*, R. Alarcon, L. Barrón Palos, L.J. Broussard, J.H. Choi, T. Chupp, C.B. Crawford, G. Dodson, N. Fomin, J. Fry, F. Gonzalez, J. Hamblen, L. Hayen, A. Jezghani, M. Makela, R. Mammei, A. Mendelsohn, P.E. Mueller, S. Penttila, J.A. Pioquinto, B. Plaster, D. Pocanic, A. Saunders, W. Schreyer and A.R. Young
*: corresponding author
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Abstract
The Nab and pNAB collaborations are conducting a program of studies of free neutron beta decay, with the primary goal of testing the unitarity of the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix that describes quark mixing
due to the weak interaction. For this purpose, a large, novel electromagnetic spectrometer, the Nab spectrometer, has been designed, built, and placed in use to determine the correlation coefficients in unpolarized neutron beta decay: "a", the neutrino-electron correlation coefficient; and "b", the Fierz term. The subject of this paper is pNAB, the second phase of the program, that will deploy the same spectrometer with a polarized neutron beam to determine "A", the beta asymmetry; and "B", the neutrino asymmetry coefficients. A focus of this paper will be on the strategies to provide a high and precisely known neutron beam polarization.
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