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Precision Measurement of the Position-space Wave Functions of Gravitationally Bound Ultracold Neutrons
Gravity is the most familiar force at our natural length scale. However, it
is still exotic from the view point of particle physics. The first experimental
study of quantum effects under gravity was performed using a cold neutron beam
in 1975. Following this, an investigation of gravitationally bound quantum
states using ultracold neutrons was started in 2002. This quantum bound system
is now well understood, and one can use it as a tunable tool to probe gravity.
In this paper, we review a recent measurement of position-space wave functions
of such gravitationally bound states, and discuss issues related to this
analysis, such as neutron loss models in a thin neutron guide, the formulation
of phase space quantum mechanics, and UCN position sensitive detectors. The
quantum modulation of neutron bound states measured in this experiment shows
good agreement with the prediction from quantum mechanics.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
A Search for non-Newtonian force in a precision measurement of the scattering of slow neutrons in Xenon gas
An experimental search for non-newtonian, gravity-like force in a precision
measurement of the scattering of slow neutrons in Xenon gas is proposed. A
preliminary experiment with small statistics of 25 hours irradiation time was
performed and the observed scattering distribution is consistent with the
expectation with no additional forces. A 95% CL limit on the coupling strength
for a hypothetical force of 1 nm interaction range was evaluated to be
2*10^-15. The expected sensitivity for a planned high statistics runs is
discussed.Comment: 5pages, 3 figure
Can a Measurement of the Mass Difference Establish the CKM Paradigm?
We present a reanalysis of the allowed region in the plane
of the CKM matrix, which follows from our present knowledge of the theoretical
and experimental parameters associated with quark mixing and CP violation.
Besides providing updated expectations for the angles of the unitarity
triangle, this reanalysis predicts a range of allowed values for the mass difference . We argue that while
values of \Delta m_{s} \lsim 10 (ps)^{-1} could be consistent with a non-CKM
origin for CP violation in the neutral Kaon system, larger values for would provide strong support for the CKM paradigm.Comment: 9 pages, LaTex, 3 uuencoded eps figures(embedded with epsfig.sty)
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