Neutron interferometry: The pioneering contributions of Samuel A. Werner

✍ Scribed by A.G. Klein

• Book ID: 104079729
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 116 KB
• Volume: 385-386
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-4526
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2006.05.183

✦ Synopsis

In 1975, Sam Werner, while on the staff of the Scientific Laboratory of the Ford Motor Company, and his collaborators from Purdue University, Roberto Colella and Albert Overhauser, carried out one of the pioneering experiments in neutron interferometry at the 2 MW University of Michigan research reactor. It was the famous COW Experiment [Colella et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 34 (1975) 1472] on gravitationally induced quantum interference. Shortly thereafter he moved to the University of Missouri in Columbia, to set up a program of neutron scattering research, including neutron interferometry.

In the 25 years until his retirement a large number of beautiful experiments have been performed by Sam, with his group, his numerous students and many international collaborators.