CANISIUS The Austrian Neutron Spin Echo Interferometer

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Hauptverfasser: Geerits, Niels, Hack, Simon, Brukner, Lara, van Well, Ad, Parnell, Steven R., Abele, Hartmut, Sponar, Stephan
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author Geerits, Niels
Hack, Simon
Brukner, Lara
van Well, Ad
Parnell, Steven R.
Abele, Hartmut
Sponar, Stephan
author_facet Geerits, Niels
Hack, Simon
Brukner, Lara
van Well, Ad
Parnell, Steven R.
Abele, Hartmut
Sponar, Stephan
contents The broad band resonant spin echo interferometer, CANISIUS, is presented. CANISIUS is built in a versatile way, such that it can be operated in both a continuous broad band beam or a pulsed Time of Flight beam. This versatility also extends to the modes available to the instrument, such as Neutron Resonant Spin Echo, Spin Echo (Modulated) Small Angle Neutron Scattering and coherent averaging to produce structured wavefunctions for scattering. The instrument may also be used as an interferometer, to probe fundamental questions in quantum mechanics. In this paper we detail both the continuous and Time of Flight options of the instruments. In addition we demonstrate the applicability of our interferometer to ultra small angle scattering in a white beam. Finally we demonstrate a new spin echo interferometry tool, which uses incomplete recombination of the two path states to generate composite wavefunctions with special structure. In particular we show that this method produces neutron wavefunctions that exist in a superposition of two quantum mechanical OAM modes, l =+1 or -1 We illustrate that just as this method can be used to generate certain structured waves, it may also be used to characterize the structure of the input wavefunction.
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spellingShingle CANISIUS The Austrian Neutron Spin Echo Interferometer
Geerits, Niels
Hack, Simon
Brukner, Lara
van Well, Ad
Parnell, Steven R.
Abele, Hartmut
Sponar, Stephan
Instrumentation and Detectors
Applied Physics
Quantum Physics
The broad band resonant spin echo interferometer, CANISIUS, is presented. CANISIUS is built in a versatile way, such that it can be operated in both a continuous broad band beam or a pulsed Time of Flight beam. This versatility also extends to the modes available to the instrument, such as Neutron Resonant Spin Echo, Spin Echo (Modulated) Small Angle Neutron Scattering and coherent averaging to produce structured wavefunctions for scattering. The instrument may also be used as an interferometer, to probe fundamental questions in quantum mechanics. In this paper we detail both the continuous and Time of Flight options of the instruments. In addition we demonstrate the applicability of our interferometer to ultra small angle scattering in a white beam. Finally we demonstrate a new spin echo interferometry tool, which uses incomplete recombination of the two path states to generate composite wavefunctions with special structure. In particular we show that this method produces neutron wavefunctions that exist in a superposition of two quantum mechanical OAM modes, l =+1 or -1 We illustrate that just as this method can be used to generate certain structured waves, it may also be used to characterize the structure of the input wavefunction.
title CANISIUS The Austrian Neutron Spin Echo Interferometer
topic Instrumentation and Detectors
Applied Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06216