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We report measurements of the neutron diffuse scattering in a single crystal of the relaxor ferroelectric material 95.5%Pb(Zn$_{1/3}$Nb$_{2/3}$)O$_3$-4.5%PbTiO$_3$ (PZN-4.5%PT). Our results suggest that the nanometer scale structure in this…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-10 Zhijun Xu , Jinsheng Wen , Guangyong Xu , C. Stock , J. S. Gardner , P. M. Gehring

The Bragg diffraction of neutrons and x-rays are well-suited to the task of determining the distribution of magnetization in crystals. Applications of the two techniques proceed by contrasting observed intensities with intensities…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-21 Stephen W. Lovesey

General analytical expressions for the observables in $dA$-scattering reaction have been derived in the diffraction approximation. The resulting formulas describe the cross section and polarization states of the deuteron when it scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-29 Valery I. Kovalchuk

High energy resolution neutron spin-echo spectroscopy has been used to measure intrinsic width of diffuse scattering discovered earlier in relaxor ferroelectric crystals. The anisotropic and transverse components of the scattering have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Sergey Vakhrushev , Alexandre Ivanov , Jiri Kulda

The highly diluted antiferromagnet Mn(0.35)Zn(0.65)F2 has been investigated by neutron scattering in zero field. The Bragg peaks observed below the Neel temperature TN (approximately 10.9 K) indicate stable antiferromagnetic long-range…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 F. C. Montenegro , D. P. Belanger , Z. Slanic , J. A. Fernandez-Baca

We calculate nuclear shadowing in lepton-deuteron deep inelastic scattering, which arises from the double scattering of the virtual photon from both nucleons in the deuteron. The total correction to the deuteron structure function is found…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Melnitchouk , A. W. Thomas

Differential cross sections for Compton scattering from the deuteron were measured at MAX-lab for incident photon energies of 55 MeV and 66 MeV at nominal laboratory angles of $45^\circ$, $125^\circ$, and $135^\circ$. Tagged photons were…

The neutrino-nucleon scattering in a collapsing star envelope with a strong magnetic field is investigated. The transferred by neutrinos momentum asymmetry along the field direction is obtained. It is shown that the neutrino-nucleon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Gvozdev , I. S. Ognev

We calculate the differential scattering rate for thermal neutrinos in a hot and dilute gas of interacting neutrons using linear response theory. The dynamical structure factors for density and spin fluctuations of the strongly interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-08 Paulo F. Bedaque , Sanjay Reddy , Srimoyee Sen , Neill C. Warrington

Equilibrium phase diagrams for neutron star matter at subnuclear densities are obtained at zero temperature. Spherical, rod-like and slab-like nuclei as well as spherical and rod-like nuclear bubbles are taken into account by using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gentaro Watanabe , Kei Iida , Katsuhiko Sato

Transitions of nuclear compositions in the crust of a neutron star induced by stellar spin-down are evaluated at zero temperature. We construct a compressible liquid-drop model for the energy of nuclei immersed in a neutron gas, including…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kei Iida , Katsuhiko Sato

The small-angle scattering of neutrons on large scale inhomogeneities of two-component systems in refraction range is considered. We supposed, that neutrons acquire phase shifts describing by the Gaussian distribution function. It is shown…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. N. Skryabin , A. V. Chukin

In the standard picture of the crust of a neutron star, matter there is simple: a body-centered-cubic (bcc) lattice of nuclei immersed in an essentially uniform electron gas. We show that at densities above that for neutron drip…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Kobyakov , C. J. Pethick

Calculations of weak-interaction transition rates and of nuclear formation enthalpies show that in isolated neutron stars, the solid phase, above the neutron-drip threshold, is amorphous and heterogeneous in nuclear charge. The neutrino…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. B. Jones

It is shown that experimental values of the cross sections of inelastic low-energy neutron scattering on even-even nuclei together with the description of these cross sections in the framework of the coupled channel optical model may be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-12 D. A. Zaikin , I. V. Surkova

Measuring Compton scattered photons and recoil neutrons in coincidence, quasi-free Compton scattering by the neutron has been investigated at MAMI (Mainz) at $theta^{lab}_\gamma=136^o$ in an energy range from 200 to 400 MeV. From the data a…

We report on ultrafast electron diffraction on high quality single crystal silicon. The ultrafast dynamics of the Bragg peaks exhibits a giant photo-induced response which can only be explained in the framework of dynamical diffraction…

Thanks to J.~Schwinger, the process of elastic scattering of neutrons by nuclei is known to depend on the interference between a nuclear amplitude and an electromagnetic one for small scattering angles, resulting in spin asymmetries of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Andrei V. Afanasev , D. V. Karlovets , V. G. Serbo

Spatially resolved neutron diffraction as a function of crystal depth in Pb(Mg$_{1/3}$Nb$_{2/3}$)O$_{3}$ reveals the presence of a distinct near-surface region. A dramatic change in both the lattice constant and the Bragg peak intensity as…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Conlon , H. Luo , D. Viehland , J. F. Li , T. Whan , J. H. Fox , C. Stock , G. Shirane

The three--nucleon scattering problem in a nuclear medium is considered within the Faddeev technique. In particular the deuteron break--up cross section that governs the formation and the break--up reactions of deuterons (NNN <-> Nd) in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Beyer , G. Röpke , A. Sedrakian