Program for studying fundamental interactions at the PIK reactor facilities


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A research program aimed at studying fundamental interactions by means of ultracold and polarized cold neutrons at the GEK-4-4′ channel of the PIK reactor is presented. The apparatus to be used includes a source of cold neutrons in the heavy-water reflector of the reactor, a source of ultracold neutrons based on superfluid helium and installed in a cold-neutron beam extracted from the GEK-4 channel, and a number of experimental facilities in neutron beams. An experiment devoted to searches for the neutron electric dipole moment and an experiment aimed at a measurement the neutron lifetime with the aid of a large gravitational trap are planned to be performed in a beam of ultracold neutrons. An experiment devoted to measuring neutron-decay asymmetries with the aid of a superconducting solenoid is planned in a beam of cold polarized neutrons from the GEK-4′ channel. The second ultracold-neutron source and an experiment aimed at measuring the neutron lifetime with the aid of a magnetic trap are planned in the neutron-guide system of the GEK-3 channel. In the realms of neutrino physics, an experiment intended for sterile-neutrino searches is designed. The state of affairs around the preparation of the experimental equipment for this program is discussed.

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A. P. Serebrov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Author for correspondence.
Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

A. V. Vassiljev

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

V. E. Varlamov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

P. Geltenbort

Institut Laue-Langevin

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
France, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, 38000

K. A. Gridnev

St. Petersburg State University

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Universitetskaya nab. 7-9, St. Petersburg, 199034

S. P. Dmitriev

Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg, 194021

N. A. Dovator

Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg, 194021

A. I. Egorov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

V. F. Ezhov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

O. M. Zherebtsov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

V. G. Zinoviev

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

V. G. Ivochkin

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

S. N. Ivanov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

S. A. Ivanov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

E. A. Kolomensky

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

K. A. Konoplev

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

I. A. Krasnoschekova

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

M. S. Lasakov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

V. A. Lyamkin

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

V. P. Martemyanov

National Research Center Kurchatov Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, pl. Akademika Kurchatova 1, Moscow, 123182

A. N. Murashkin

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

P. V. Neustroev

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

M. S. Onegin

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

A. L. Petelin

Research Institute of Atomic Reactors

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Dimitrovgrad-10, Ulyanovsk oblast, 433510

A. N. Pirozhkov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

A. O. Polyushkin

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

D. V. Prudnikov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

V. L. Ryabov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

R. M. Samoylov

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

S. V. Sbitnev

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

A. K. Fomin

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

A. V. Fomichev

St. Petersburg State University

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Universitetskaya nab. 7-9, St. Petersburg, 199034

O. Zimmer

Institut Laue-Langevin

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
France, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, 38000

A. V. Cherniy

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

I. V. Shoka

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute

Email: serebrov@pnpi.spb.ru
Russian Federation, Gatchina, 188300

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