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The frozen spin method can be effectively used for a high-precision measurement of the tensor electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the deuteron and other nuclei in storage rings. For the deuteron, this method would provide the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-29 Alexander J. Silenko

We show how the entanglement contained in states of spins arranged on a lattice may be quantified with observables arising in scattering experiments. We focus on the partial differential cross-section obtained in neutron scattering from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-26 O. Marty , M. Epping , H. Kampermann , D. Bruß , M. B. Plenio , M. Cramer

Scattered neutron spectroscopy is a diagnostic technique commonly used to measure areal density in ICF experiments. Deleterious areal density asymmetries modify the shape of the scattered neutron spectrum. In this work a novel analysis is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Aidan Crilly , Brian Appelbe , Owen Mannion , Chad Forrest , Jeremy Chittenden

I discuss inclusive and semi-inclusive lepton-hadron scattering emphasizing the importance of polarization in order to study various single or double spin asymmetries and the importance of particle identification and angular resolution in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 P. J. Mulders

Motivated by the evidence for a finite neutrino mass we examine anew the interaction of neutrinos in a magnetic field. We present the rate for radiative scattering for both massless and massive neutrinos in the standard model and give the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. S. McFarland , A. C. Melissinos , N. V. Mikheev , W. W. Repko

We report on a polarized-neutron Laue diffraction experiment on a single crystal of neodynium doped lanthanum magnesium nitrate hydrate containing polarized proton spins. By using dynamic nuclear polarization to polarize the proton spins,…

Spin-echo instruments are typically used to measure diffusive processes and the dynamics and motion in samples on ps and ns timescales. A key aspect of the spin-echo technique is to determine the polarisation of a particle beam. We present…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-05 Anton Tamtögl , Benjamin Davey , David J. Ward , Andrew P. Jardine , John Ellis , William Allison

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

A novel polarimeter based on the asymmetry in the spacial distribution of synchrotron radiation will make for a fine addition to the existing M{\o}ller and Compton polarimeters. The spin light polarimeter consists of a set of wiggler magnet…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Prajwal Mohanmurthy , Dipangkar Dutta

A general theory of pseudomagnetic effects for the propagation of polarized neutrons through polarized target in multi resonance approach is presented. Some applications related to the proposed search for time reversal invariance violation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-12 Vladimir Gudkov , Hirohiko M. Shimizu

The principle of using strongly scattering materials to recover efficiency in neutron detectors, via back-scattering of unconverted thermal neutrons, is discussed in general. Feasibility of the method is illustrated through Geant4-based…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-11 Thomas Kittelmann , Esben Klinkby , Xiao Xiao Cai , Kalliopi Kanaki , Carsten P Cooper-Jensen , Richard Hall-Wilton

Compton scattering of twisted photons is investigated within a non-relativistic framework using first-order perturbation theory. We formulate the problem in the density matrix theory, which enables one to gain new insights into scattering…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 S. Stock , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche , D. Seipt

The fragmentation description is used to analyse calculated neutron scattering intensities from kagom\'e ice and spin ice systems. The longitudinal, transverse and harmonic fragments produce independent contributions to the neutron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-21 F. Museur , E. Lhotel , P. C. W. Holdsworth

Compton scattering results are used to probe proton structure via measurement of higher order polarizabilities. Values for $\alpha_{E2}^p,\beta_{E2}^p,\alpha_{E\nu}^p,$ $\beta_{E\nu}^p$ determined via dispersion relations are compared to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Barry R. Holstein , D. Drechsel , B. Pasquini , M. Vanderhaeghen

We investigate polarization states of the outgoing neutron-proton ($np$) pair in elastic polarized neutron and proton scattering, aiming to find unambiguous evidence for entanglement of their spin states. To obtain complete information…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 H. Witała , J. Golak , R. Skibiński

With the use of theory developed earlier, bulk effects in ultracold neutron coherent inelastic scattering are considered both for solid and liquid target samples related to energy and momentum exchange with phonon and diffusion-like modes.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. L. Barabanov , S. T. Belyaev

A general theoretical framework is developed for interpreting spectropolarimetric observations of optically thin emission line scattering from small dust particles. Spatially integrated and spatially resolved line profiles of both scattered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 W. J. Henney

We present the first measurements of polarized neutron birefringence in transmission through nuclear-polarized $^{129}$Xe and $^{131}$Xe gas and determine the neutron incoherent scattering lengths…

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

We present a possible way of computing resonance poles and modes in scattering theory. Numerical examples are given for the scattering of electromagnetic waves by finite-size photonic crystals.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Didier Felbacq