Speaker
Cameron Blake Erickson
(University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Description
The search for additional CP-violating interactions generated by BSM physics motivates a strong experimental effort to measure the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM). The nEDM@SNS experiment planned at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory aims to achieve a sensitivity of $2−3×10^{−28}$ e-cm, an improvement upon the current limit of $1x10^{-26}$ e-cm. This is accomplished through a novel combination of ultracold neutrons (UCNs) and a controlled, dilute mixture of superfluid $^4$He with spin polarized $^3$He. This talk will give a summary of the experiment and planned measurements of the $^3$He diffusion constant inside the superfluid – useful for the design of nEDM@SNS as well as other UCN experiments.
Primary authors
Cameron Blake Erickson
(University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
nEDM@SNS collaboration
