Study of hybridization gap formation in a single crystal of the heavy-Fermion superconductor: CeCoSi3

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The solution of the Anderson lattice model (ALM) leads to two renormalized bands near EF with an energy gap due to hybridization between the 4f- and conduction electrons. The scattering across this hybridization gap has an energy scale equal to the Kondo temperature and is highly Q-dependent. In inelastic neutron scattering (INS) one expects the strongest intensity for the interband scattering at the indirect threshold near the zone boundary, where the weight is dominated by the 4f-electrons, while the weak scattering for the direct gap near Q=0. The measured INS in single crystals of YbAl3, CePd3 and CeIn1Sn3 agrees with the prediction of ALM. Recently we have investigated a powder sample of CeCoSi3 on HET and found a strong inelastic peak, near ~80-90 meV. Here we propose to investigate a single crystal of CeCoSi3 using the MERLIN spectrometer to test the predictions of the ALM.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079490
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079490
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Creator Professor Geetha Balakrishnan; Dr Aidy Hillier; Dr Devashi Adroja; Professor Brian Rainford
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-08-07T09:36:01Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-08-14T16:55:43Z