Hydrogen Surface Contamination and the Storage of Ultracold Neutrons
- 12 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 39 (24), 1509-1512
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.1509
Abstract
The results of hydrogen profile measurements on samples prepared by the same methods used for these materials when making ultracold-neutron (UCN) storage bottles show that the surface hydrogen is sufficient to account for the bulk of the anomalous shortening of UCN storage times.Keywords
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