Depolarization of neutrons in ferromagnetic holmium by means of enhanced nuclear parity violation in sup 139 La

Journal Article · Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1992 · Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.46.11290· OSTI ID:7198322

Haase, D G; Bowman, J D; Delheij, P P.J.; Frankle, C M; Gould, C R; Knudson, J N; Koster, J E; Mitchell, G E; Penttilae, S; Postma, H; Roberson, N R; Seestrom, S J; Yoo, S H; Yuan, V W ^[1]

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1. Physics Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 (United States) Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27706 (United States) Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States) TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Colombia, V6T 2A3 (Canada) Physics Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706 (United States) Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27706 (United States) University of Technology, P.O. Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft (Netherlands)

The depolarization of epithermal neutrons in a thick single crystal of ferromagnetic holmium has been measured and analyzed with a model of neutron precession through a highly correlated array of magnetic domains. The large parity violation in the 0.734-eV {ital p}-wave resonance in {sup 139}La was used to analyze the neutron polarization, and represents an application of parity violation in nuclear resonances to a measurement in condensed-matter physics.

• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76ER01067; FG05-88ER40441; W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 7198322
• Journal Information: Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (United States), Vol. 46:18; ISSN 0163-1829
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
HOLMIUM
DOMAIN STRUCTURE
NEUTRONS
DEPOLARIZATION
FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS
LANTHANUM 139
MONOCRYSTALS
NEUTRON BEAMS
P INVARIANCE
P WAVES
POLARIZED BEAMS
BARYONS
BEAMS
CRYSTALS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ELEMENTS
FERMIONS
HADRONS
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
ISOTOPES
LANTHANUM ISOTOPES
MAGNETIC MATERIALS
MATERIALS
METALS
NUCLEI
NUCLEON BEAMS
NUCLEONS
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
PARTIAL WAVES
PARTICLE BEAMS
RARE EARTH ISOTOPES
RARE EARTH NUCLEI
RARE EARTHS
STABLE ISOTOPES
665100* - Nuclear Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics - (1992-)