Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: The possibility of the determination of the neutron mean square charge radius from high-precision thermal-neutron measurements of the nuclear scattering length and of the scattering amplitudes of Bragg reflections is considered. Making use of the same Pendell\"osung technique as Shull [Phys. Rev. Lett. 21, 1585 (1968)], the scattering amplitudes of about eight higher-order Bragg reflections in silicon could be measured without single-scattering contamination. This would provide a value of the neutron charge radius as precise as the disagreeing Argonne-Garching and Dubna values, as well as a Debye-Waller factor of silicon ten times more precise than presently available.
Source: Physical Review C
Authors: J.-M. Sparenberg, H. Leeb
Institution: TU Wien
Language: English
Subfield: Radiation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2017822656