We present pressure dependent neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the dimerized antiferromagnet Ba 3 Mn 2 O 8 . The room temperature diffraction measurements reveal a linear decrease in lattice constant as a function of applied pressure. No structural transitions are observed. The low-temperature neutron spectroscopy measurements indicate a small change in magnetic scattering intensity in the vicinity of the spin gap for pressures up to P = 0.6 Gpa.KEYWORDS: neutron scattering, pressure effect, spin-dimers, antiferromagnet Quantum antiferromagnets are a good testing ground for examining and probing quantum critical points and phenomena.1-3) One such system which we have been studying is Ba 3 Mn 2 O 8 . This compound consists of coupled S = 1 Mn 5+ spin dimers arranged on a hexagonal lattice.4) Dimer layers are separated from one another along the crystallographic c-axis by Ba sites. Thermodynamic measurements have examined the spin-gap and established that the ground state is a non-magnetic singlet.5, 7) Inelastic neutron scattering measurements examining powders and single crystals determined the exchange connectivity and interactions. 8,9) Typical approaches to accessing quantum critical points in gapped spin liquid compounds include the application of applied magnetic fields and chemical substitution. Recently, non-magnetic substitution has also been studied in Ba 3 (Mn 1−x V x ) 2 O 8 , and a potential disordered random singlet ground state has been found. 10,11) Still another approach to perturbing the magnetic ground state of quantum antiferromagnets is to apply external pressure to the crystal structure. The distortion of the crystal structure via external pressure will affect the magnetic exchange interactions. Inelastic neutron scattering measurements are able to directly probe these effects by measuring the magnetic excitation cross-section. This has been done for the three dimensional dimer compound TlCuCl 3 12) and the two-dimensional spin dimer PHCC. 17) For the case of TlCuCl 3 , which has an intradimer exchange of J 0 ≈ 5 meV, 13) it was found that an external pressure of 0.11 GPa can completely close the singlet-triplet spin-gap, [14][15][16] whereas in PHCC the spin-gap is reduced by approximately 0.47 meV per GPa. The quantum spin ladder, IPA-CuCl 3 has also been examined as a function of pressure.18) For this system, it was found that the spin gap closed at a rate of approximately 0.23 meV per GPa. Here we examine the influence of pressure on the exchange interactions in the two-dimensional S = 1 disordered antiferromagnet Ba 3 Mn 2 O 8 . Ba 3 Mn 2 O 8 has an intradimer exchange constant of J 0 = 1.64 meV with a series of weaker interdimer exchanges. 9)