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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 46: Poster

HK 46.77: Poster

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 16:00–18:00, HZ Poster

CoTEx - Coil tests for the neutron lifetime experiment PENeLOPE — •Dominic Gaisbauer for the PENeLOPE collaboration — Technische Universität München, Physikdepartment E18

PENeLOPE is an experiment with ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) for determining their lifetime in a magneto-gravitational trap with special designed superconducting coils developed at Technische Universität München. It is designed to have a precision of up to 'pm 0.1s. Due to their unique characteristics all coils for the trap have to be trained and tested in a preliminary experiment called CoTEx before they can be inserted into PENeLOPE. The poster will highlight the results of the first welded coil stack delivered in December 2013. A short overview of CoTEx in general and the slow control and quench detection of CoTEx will also be presented.

This project is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Maier-Leibnitz-Laboratorium Garching and the Cluster of Excellence "Origin and Structure of the Universe".