Gravitational and other shifts of neutron, hydrogen, antihydrogen, muonium, and positronium whispering gallery and gravitational state interference patterns

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10536v1
• Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:37:18 GMT
• Title: Gravitational and other shifts of neutron, hydrogen, antihydrogen, muonium, and positronium whispering gallery and gravitational state interference patterns
• Authors: V. V. Nesvizhevsky, J. A. Pioquinto, K. Schreiner, S. Baessler, P. Crivelli, E. Widmann,
• Abstract summary: Recently, a shift of a neutron whispering-gallery interference pattern due to an external magnetic field gradient was measured.<n>By analogy, a similar phenomenon can be observed with other particles and forces.<n>The developed methods can be used for observing/searching for other shifts in fundamental neutron physics experiments.
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• Abstract: Recently, a shift of a neutron whispering-gallery interference pattern due to an external magnetic field gradient was measured. By analogy, a similar phenomenon can be observed with other particles and forces. In particular, a gravitational shift of the neutron whispering gallery can be easily observed with cold or very cold or ultracold neutrons, and the developed methods can be used for observing/searching for other shifts in fundamental neutron physics experiments, for instance, for measuring the gravitational constant or constraining the neutron electric charge. A peculiar feature of analogous atomic (anti-atomic) experiments is the much smaller effective critical energies of the materials of atomic (anti-atomic) mirrors. We evaluated parameters that make a measurement of the hydrogen and antihydrogen whispering gallery and their gravitational shifts feasible. A series of such measurements will be made with neutrons at the PF1B/PF2/D17 facilities at the ILL, as well as with hydrogen or/and deuterium atoms by the GRASIAN collaboration in Vienna and Turku. Such a measurement with antihydrogen atoms may be of interest for the GBAR experiment, the ASACUSA experiment which is producing a beam of slow antihydrogen atoms, or other experiments at CERN, which study the gravitational properties of antimatter. Quantum reflection of muonium and positronium from material surfaces opens the possibility of observing whispering-galley states, although such measurements remain experimentally challenging. The observation of gravitational shifts is particularly demanding because of the extremely short lifetimes of these systems. Measurements of whispering gallery with all these atoms and particles yield unique information on the quantum reflection properties at surfaces, providing valuable input for both fundamental and surface studies.

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