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Journal Articles Physics Letters B Year : 2012

Experimental limits on neutron disappearance into another braneworld

M. Sarrazin
F. Petit
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Abstract

Recent theoretical works have shown that matter swapping between two parallel braneworlds could occur under the influence of magnetic vector potentials. In our visible world, galactic magnetism possibly produces a huge magnetic potential. As a consequence, this paper discusses the possibility to observe neutron disappearance into another braneworld in certain circumstances. The setup under consideration involves stored ultracold neutrons - in a vessel - which should exhibit a non zero probability p to disappear into an invisible brane at each wall collision. An upper limit of p is assessed based on available experimental results. This value is then used to constrain the parameters of the theoretical model. Possible improvements of the experiments are discussed.

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in2p3-00662215 , version 1 (23-01-2012)

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M. Sarrazin, G. Pignol, F. Petit, V.V. Nesvizhevsky. Experimental limits on neutron disappearance into another braneworld. Physics Letters B, 2012, 712, pp.213-218. ⟨10.1016/j.physletb.2012.04.069⟩. ⟨in2p3-00662215⟩
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