• Title of article

    Diffraction enhancement and new way to measure neutron electric charge and the ratio of inertial to gravitational mass

  • Author/Authors

    Fedorov، نويسنده , , V.V. and Kuznetsov، نويسنده , , I.A. and Lapin، نويسنده , , E.G. and Semenikhin، نويسنده , , S.Yu. and Voronin، نويسنده , , V.V.، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    505
  • To page
    509
  • Abstract
    The essential magnification of an external affect on neutron diffracting by Laue for the Bragg angles θ B close to right one has been experimentally observed. The factor of diffraction enhancement for the neutron trajectory “curvature” due to external field is proportional to tan 2 θ B and can reach magnitude ∼ 10 8 – 10 9 in comparison with a free neutron. The new method to measure a neutron electric charge and the ratio of inertial to gravitational masses has been proposed. The estimations have shown a feasibility to improve the accuracy of a neutron electric charge measurement by about two orders of magnitude in comparison with the current value and measure the ratio of inertial to gravitational masses with the accuracy about σ ( m i / m G ) ∼ 10 - 6 .
  • Keywords
    Neutron , diffraction , Electric charge , Perfect crystal , Weak equivalence principle
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2032504