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LANSCE Ultracold Neutron Facility

UCN Facility Sources

Public overviewLos Alamos National Laboratory
UCN Experiments — overview of the experiments hosted by the LANSCE Ultracold Neutron Facility, including UCNτ
UCNτ / UCNτ+

UCNτ Sources

2022CERN EP Seminar · Steven Clayton
Precision Measurements of the Neutron Lifetime with UCNτ — apparatus, Halbach trap, dagger and experimental imagery
2017Review of Scientific Instruments
A New Method for Measuring the Neutron Lifetime Using an In Situ Neutron Detector — dagger detector construction and readout
LA-UR-24-295792024 / Phys. Rev. C
Measurement of the Free Neutron Lifetime in a Magneto-Gravitational Trap with In Situ Detection — experimental layout and later dagger-detector configuration
LA-UR-25-264582025 · Los Alamos National Laboratory
New Measurement of Free Neutron Lifetime Achieves World-Record Precision — UCNτ results, UCNτ+ elevator installation imagery and upgrade description
2024NCSU dissertation
UCNτ+ Upgrade — detailed elevator geometry, loading-volume CAD and technical context
nEDM / Los Alamos neutron electric dipole moment experiment

nEDM Sources

LA-UR-26-277642026
Overview of the LANL nEDM Experiment
LA-UR-26-278052026
Magnetic Impurity Scanner for the Los Alamos nEDM Experiment
2023Nuclear Instruments and Methods A
Characterization of the New Ultracold Neutron Beamline at the LANL UCN Facility
Public overviewUniversity of Illinois
nEDM Experiments — nEDM@LANL
LA-UR-22-278102022
The LANL nEDM Experiment — Takeyasu Ito (apparatus CAD, vacuum chamber, precession chambers and UCN-valve imagery)
2023nEDM2023 presentation
The Los Alamos National Laboratory nEDM Experiment — Felicity Hills (downloadable presentation material)
Cavallo / cryogenic high voltage · nEDM@SNS

Cavallo Sources

LA-UR-26-245702026
Demonstration of 255-kV High-Voltage Generation with a Cavallo Multiplier System
2026arXiv / NIM-A manuscript
Electrode Design for a Cavallo High Voltage Multiplier in a Cryogenic nEDM Experiment
2023nEDM2023
Cavallo High Voltage Multiplier for the nEDM@SNS Experiment — Steven Clayton
2018Journal of Instrumentation
Cavallo's Multiplier for in situ Generation of High Voltage
LA-UR-25-315632025 / 2026 publication
High Voltage and Electrode System for a Cryogenic Experiment to Search for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment — LANL accepted manuscript / Physical Review C
2024Caltech dissertation
Creating the Electric and Magnetic Fields for the nEDM@SNS Experiment — Marie Blatnik (Cavallo apparatus, cryogenic prototype, test apparatus and field-mill development)
CCM / Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills

CCM Sources

LA-UR-19-308562019
Convincing Search for Sterile Neutrinos at LANL Coherent Captain-Mills (CCM) Experiment
LA-UR-20-293902020
Upgrades to the Coherent CAPTAIN Mills Experiment for the Upcoming CCM200 Run
LA-UR-21-249832021
First Dark Matter Search Results from Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills
LA-UR-21-284742021
Prospects for Detecting Axionlike Particles at the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills Experiment
LA-UR-22-226872022
LANSCE-PSR Short-Pulse Upgrade for Improved Dark Sector Particle Searches with the Coherent Captain Mills Experiment
LA-UR-25-264742025
Measurement of the Liquid Argon Scintillation Pulse Shape Using Differentiable Simulation in the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills Experiment
2020University of New Mexico
Searching for Sterile Neutrinos and Accelerator Produced Dark Matter with the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) Detector at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
2020Scientific American
The Darkest Particles / Hidden Neutrino Particles May Be a Link to the Dark Sector