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EPL
Volume 92, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/92/62001
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- Ludwig-Maximilians- Universitat (LMU)
- Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM)
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Our recent neutron scattering measurements of phonons and other quasi-particle excitations in solid deuterium (sD(2)) and the extraction of the density of states for phonons and rotational transitions in sD(2) have led us to a new understanding of the production of ultra-cold neutrons (UCN) in sD(2)(.) The UCN production rate reaches a maximum at an equivalent neutron temperature of T-n = 40K for a neutron flux with Maxwellian energy distribution. The cross-section for UCN production in sD(2) has been determined by using the density of states G(1)(E) in combination with the incoherent approximation as well as by a direct calibration of our measured neutron cross-sections with the known cross-section of the J = 1 -> 0 rotational transition in deuterium. Using this cross-section we deduced the production rate of UCN in sD(2) which agrees quite well with direct measurements of this energy averaged UCN production cross-section. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2010
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