Papers and posters presented at the April 2004 International Conference on Precision Measurements with Slow Neutrons at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Preface

This Special Issue of the Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Parts 1 and 2) contains papers from the International conversation on Precision Measurements with moderate Neutrons held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD April 5-7 2004 They highlight of recent origin results and developments in like topics as neutron electric dipole point of time searches, neutron optics and interferometry, Standard prototype tests using neutron beta decay, neutron facilities, neutron polarimetry, and nucleon-nucleon interactions.

The meeting was comprised of 3 replete days of oral sessions and placard presentations. Approximately 125 people from 10 countries participated in the meeting, which solicited above 120 abstracts. Their numerous contributions can be seen in the following Program listing and in the papers included in this Special Issue. All of the papers that were submitted were base to be appropriate for these talk proceedings by the special issue editors, on the other hand we note that not all were given prompt review.

A filled session on neutron facilities around the world highlighted the increasing number of fresh sources that are under construction. These facilities demonstrate the growing in the field of fundamental neutron physics and not absent additional opportunities for experiments requiring large densities of ultracold neutron exploiting higher fluence of puls gelid neutrons, or training future generations of neutron scientists. The general consensus among the participants was that although there has been substantial progres novel challenges and opportunities in fundamental neutron physics continue to near themselves.

Finally, we acknowledge the generous financial support of the NIST Physics Laboratory and Ionizing Radiation Division, North Carolina State University, the University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Joint Institute for Neutron Science, Harvard University, the Institut Laue-Langevin, LENS: the depressed Energy Neutron Source, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Institute of Physics Publishing, Inc.

Muhammad Arif

M Scott Dewey

Tom Gentile

Paul Huffman

Jeff Nico

Special Issue Editors

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