Neutron critical opalescence near the critical points of 3He and 3He-4He mixtures.

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Building on our preliminary neutron transmission results from the CRISP instrument (see below), we propose to undertake a detailed study of critical fluctuations in 3He near its critical point. Neutrons provide a powerful tool for the investigation of critical collective excitations. In our recent experiment on CRISP, we observed neutron critical opalescence near the 3He critical point for the first time. Our preliminary data demonstrate some quite unexpected behavior: near the critical temperature (~3K) the neutron transmission is significantly higher then would be expected, just based on the average density of 3He atoms. In order to confirm and further investigate this important observation in a more comprehensive way, we propose a new series of transmission experiments on CRISP to collect more information about the transmission of neutrons in 3He near the critical point.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24077441
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24077441
Provenance
Creator Professor Peter McClintock; Dr Robert Dalgliesh; Dr Timothy Charlton; Dr Oleg Kirichek
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-09-28T07:44:55Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-11-19T07:16:41Z