High resolution neutron Larmor diffraction using superconducting magnetic Wollaston prisms

Li, Fankang; Feng, Hao; Thaler, Alexander N.; Parnell, Steven R.; Hamilton, William A.; Crow, Lowell; Yang, Wencao; Jones, Amy B.; Bai, Hongyu; Matsuda, Masaaki; Baxter, David V.; Keller, Thomas; Fernandez-Baca, Jaime A.; Pynn, Roger

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00740-5

Title: High resolution neutron Larmor diffraction using superconducting magnetic Wollaston prisms

Journal Article · Thu Apr 13 04:00:00 UTC 2017 · Scientific Reports

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00740-5 · OSTI ID:1352771

Li, Fankang ^[1]; Feng, Hao ^[2]; Thaler, Alexander N. ^[3]; Parnell, Steven R. ^[4]; Hamilton, William A. ^[5]; Crow, Lowell ^[5]; Yang, Wencao ^[2]; Jones, Amy B. ^[5]; Bai, Hongyu ^[6]; Matsuda, Masaaki ^[3]; Baxter, David V. ^[2]; Keller, Thomas ^[7]; Fernandez-Baca, Jaime A. ^[8]; Pynn, Roger ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Instrument and Source Division; Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States). Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter and Dept. of Physics
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States). Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter and Dept. of Physics
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Quantum Condensed Matter Division
Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands). Faculty of Applied Sciences
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Instrument and Source Division
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Max Planck Inst. for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (Germany)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Quantum Condensed Matter Division; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

The neutron Larmor diffraction technique has been implemented using superconducting magnetic Wollaston prisms in both single-arm and double-arm configurations. Successful measurements of the coefficient of thermal expansion of a single-crystal copper sample demonstrates that the method works as expected. Our experiment involves a new method of tuning by varying the magnetic field configurations in the device and the tuning results agree well with previous measurements. The difference between single-arm and double-arm configurations has been investigated experimentally. Here, we conclude that this measurement benchmarks the applications of magnetic Wollaston prisms in Larmor diffraction and shows in principle that the setup can be used for inelastic phonon line-width measurements. The achievable resolution for Larmor diffraction is comparable to that using Neutron Resonance Spin Echo (NRSE) coils. Furthermore, the use of superconducting materials in the prisms allows high neutron polarization and transmission efficiency to be achieved.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1352771

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 7; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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