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Inelastic neutron and X-ray scattering experiments on surfaces and interfaces are a challenging topic in modern physics. Particular interest arises regarding surfaces and interfaces of soft matter and biological systems. We review both…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-10-02 Maikel C. Rheinstädter , Tilo Seydel , Bela Farago , Tim Salditt

The neutron skin thickness of nuclei is a sensitive probe of the nuclear symmetry energy having multiple implications for nuclear and astrophysical studies. However, precision measurements of this observable are difficult. The analysis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-05-27 M. Warda , X. Viñas , X. Roca-Maza , M. Centelles

We perform classical three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of ultracold neutrons scattering through an absorbing-reflecting mirror system in the Earth's gravitational field. We show that the underlying mixed phase space of regular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-20 L. A. Chizhova , S. Rotter , T. Jenke , G. Cronenberg , P. Geltenbort , G. Wautischer , H. Filter H. Abele , J. Burgdörfer

Neutron imaging has gained significant importance as a material characterisation technique and is particularly useful to visualise hydrogenous materials in objects opaque to other radiations. Particular fields of application include…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-14 Estrid Buhl Naver , Okan Yetik , Noémie Ott , Matteo Busi , Pavel Trtik , Luise Theil Kuhn , Markus Strobl

We review the physics of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and the results and perspectives for the measurements of the radius of the neutron distribution of the nucleus, of the weak mixing angle, and of new neutrino interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-27 M. Cadeddu , F. Dordei , C. Giunti

Metal tubes plated with nickel-phosphorus are used in many fundamental physics experiments using ultracold neutrons (UCN) because of their ease of fabrication. These tubes are usually polished to a average roughness of 25-150 nm. However,…

Solid deuterium (sD_2) is used as an efficient converter to produce ultracold neutrons (UCN). It is known that the sD_2 must be sufficiently cold, of high purity and mostly in its ortho-state in order to guarantee long lifetimes of UCN in…

The general theory of neutron scattering is presented, valid for the whole domain of slow neutrons from thermal to ultracold. Particular attention is given to multiple scattering which is the dominant process for ultracold neutrons (UCN).…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. L. Barabanov , S. T. Belyaev

The inclusion of massive neutrinos affects the cross sections involved in the formation of heavy nuclei, modifying their abundances. Rapid neutron capture processes (r-process) are often associated with explosive events such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-10 M. M. Saez , M. E. Mosquera , O. Civitarese

A propagation method for the scattering of a quantum wave packet from a potential surface is presented. It is used to model the quantum reflection of single atoms from a corrugated (metallic) surface. Our numerical procedure works well in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 E. Galiffi , C. Sünderhauf , M. DeKieviet , S. Wimberger

The extreme conditions in Neutron Stars make them ideal test facilities for fundamental interactions. A Neutron Star can capture Dark Matter via scattering. As a result of the scattering, Dark Matter kinetic energy is transferred to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-21 Giorgio Busoni

We present a theoretical formalism for scattering of the twisted neutrons by nuclei in a kinematic regime where interference between Coulomb interaction and the strong interaction is essential. Twisted neutrons have definite quantized…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 A. V. Afanasev , D. V. Karlovets , V. G. Serbo

What effect do particle-emitting resonances have on the scattering cross section? What physical considerations are necessary when modelling these resonances? These questions are important when theoretically describing scattering experiments…

We have combined neutron reflectometry with rheology in order to investigate the solid boundary of liquids and polymers under shear deformation. Our approach allows one to apply a controlled stress to a material while resolving the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-09 Max Wolff , Peter Kuhns , Georg Liesche , John F. Ankner , Jim F. Browning , Philipp Gutfreund

Incoherent neutron scattering experiments are simulated for simple dynamic models: a glass (with a smooth distribution of harmonic vibrations) and a viscous liquid (described by schematic mode-coupling equations). In most situations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Joachim Wuttke

Neutron lifetime is one of the most important physical constants which determines parameters of the weak interaction and predictions of primordial nucleosynthesis theory. There remains the unsolved problem of a 3.9{\sigma} discrepancy…

For a particle traversing a bent crystal in the regime of volume reflection we evaluate the probability of interaction with atomic nuclei. Regardless of the continuous potential shape, this probability is found to differ from the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-08-03 M. V. Bondarenco

A new method for investigation of x-ray propagation in a rough narrow dielectric waveguide is proposed on the basis of the numerical integration of the quazioptical equation. In calculations a model rough surface was used with the given…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Bobrova , L. I. Ognev

Neutrino-matter cross sections and interaction rates are central to the core-collapse supernova phenomenon and, very likely, to the viability of the explosion mechanism itself. In this paper, we describe the major neutrino scattering,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adam Burrows , Sanjay Reddy , Todd A. Thompson

The author of article discusses the possible systematic effects in our experiment using reference and picture from allegedly our publication. First of all this publication does not exist. The assumption of author about the probability of…