GENERAL-ANALYSIS FOR EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF TIME-REVERSAL-VIOLATING EFFECTS IN SLOW-NEUTRON PROPAGATION THROUGH POLARIZED MATTER

A general technique is developed for the analysis of proposed experime ntal studies of possible P,T-violating effects in the neutron-nucleus interaction based on low-energy neuron transmission through polarized matter. The analysis is applied to proposed experimental schemes and w e determine the levels at which the absolute neutron polarization, mag netic fields, and target polarization must be controlled in order for these experiments to obtain a given sensitivity to P,T-violating effec ts.