arXiv:hep-ph/0306198·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Measurement of quantum states of neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field
V. V. Nesvizhevsky (1)🇫🇷 · H. G. Boerner (1)🇫🇷 · A. M. Gagarsky (2)🇷🇺 · A. K. Petoukhov (1 and 2)🇫🇷 · G. A. Petrov (2)🇷🇺 · H. Abele (3)🇩🇪 · S. Baessler (3 and 7)🇩🇪 · G. Divkovic (3)🇩🇪 · F. J. Ruess (3)🇩🇪 · Th. Stoeferle (3)🇩🇪 · A. Westphal (3)🇩🇪 · A. V. Strelkov (4)🇷🇺 · K. V. Protasov (5)🇫🇷 · A. Yu. Voronin (6, 5) ((1) Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France, (2) Peterburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia, (3) University of Heidelberg, Germany, (4) Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia, (5) Institut Sciences Nucleare, Grenoble, France, (6) FIAN, Moscow, Russia)🇷🇺
Abstract
The lowest stationary quantum state of neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field is identified in the measurement of neutron transmission between a horizontal mirror on the bottom and an absorber on top. Such an assembly is not transparent for neutrons if the absorber height is smaller than the "height" of the lowest quantum state.