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超冷中子物理模拟程序MCUCN

The MCUCN simulation code for ultracold neutron physics

G. Zsigmond

摘要:

超冷中子(UCN)具有非常低的动能0-300 neV,因此可以存储在特定的材料或磁约束中数百秒。这使它们成为探测自然界基本对称性(例如中子电偶极矩实验的电荷宇称破坏)和为大爆炸核合成(中子寿命测量)提供重要参数的非常有用的工具。世界各地新的和计划中的UCN源正在建设更高精度的实验。MC模拟在优化具有大量参数的此类系统中发挥着重要作用,而且在估计系统效应、对分析代码进行基准测试或作为分析的一部分方面也发挥着重要作用。在PSI编写的MCUCN代码已被广泛用于UCN源光学的优化,并在基于PSI的nEDM项目内的(测试)实验的优化和分析。在本文中,我们提出了MCUCN的主要特点和有趣的基准和应用程序的例子。

英文摘要:

Ultracold neutrons (UCN) have very low kinetic energies 0-300 neV, thereby can be stored in specific material or magnetic confinements for many hundreds of seconds. This makes them a very useful tool in probing fundamental symmetries of nature (for instance charge-parity violation by neutron electric dipole moment experiments) and contributing important parameters for the Big Bang nucleosynthesis (neutron lifetime measurements). Improved precision experiments are in construction at new and planned UCN sources around the world. MC simulations play an important role in the optimization of such systems with a large number of parameters, but also in the estimation of systematic effects, in benchmarking of analysis codes, or as part of the analysis. The MCUCN code written at PSI has been extensively used for the optimization of the UCN source optics and in the optimization and analysis of (test) experiments within the nEDM project based at PSI. In this paper we present the main features of MCUCN and interesting benchmark and application examples.

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