Muon spin rotation study on PrTSi3 (T = Ir, Rh and Ru)

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Recently we have investigated three new ternary intermetallic compounds PrTSi3 (T = Ir, Rh and Ru) which form in BaNiSn3-type tetragonal structure. The susceptibility exhibits well pronounced anomaly in all these compounds. While in PrIrSi3 transition occurs at 12.2K, in PrRuSi3 it occurs near 8.5K. The specific heat data also confirm these transitions. On the other hand PrRhSi3 exhibits two magnetic transitions at 6.6K and 14.2K in the susceptibility, but no clear anomaly in the heat capacity. Since our inelastic neutron scattering study on PrRuSi3 reveals a singlet crystal field ground state, which indicates magnetic ordering in this compound is due to an induced moment type. It would be of interest to confirm a long range magnetic ordering in these compounds using muSR technique, which is ideal to probe weak magnetism. We therefore propose to carry out musr study on these compounds.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088311
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088311
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Creator Dr Aidy Hillier; Dr Devashi Adroja; Dr Vivek Kumar Anand
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
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 2011-12-03T10:08:42Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-12-05T05:57:20Z