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Tests of fundamental symmetries; neutron beta decay and electric dipole
moments; neutrinos and neutrino oscillations; ultracold neutrons; studies
of few nucleon systems; quantum chaos; statistical properties of nuclei;
polarized nuclear targets
Experimental Nuclear Physics Website
Weak Interactions Website
Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratories
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| Experiments with ultracold neutrons (UCN's) make up a large part of the current research effort of the NC State nuclear physics group. Here, graduate student Chris O'Shaughnessy is shown with the apparatus he helped develop at NIST for measuring the neutron lifetime using magnetically trapped UCN's. Improving the limits on the neutron lifetime has implications for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and for tests of unitarity of the CKM matrix.
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