Form factors in magnetic scattering of thermal neutrons

2007/06/03 by Rafik Ballou, Ballou, Rafik
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other) #cond-mat.other

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0706.0335

Lecture notes (European school on Polarized Neutrons for Material and Life Sciences, 4th - 7th June 2005, Anglet, France) - 59 pages

arxiv created 2007/06/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

This lecture addresses the concept of form factor in magnetic scattering of thermal neutrons, analyzing its meaning, discussing its measurement by polarized neutrons and detailing its computation for the ions by the spherical tensor operator formalism.

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