Li-Ammonia Solutions/Solid - The State of the Proton as Probed By Deep Inelastic Neutron Spectroscopy

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Upon the addition of Li to anhydrous ammonia, the famous Li-Ammonia solutions form through an intriguing metal-insulator transition. These have been studied intensely for many years (including by quasielastic neutron spectroscopy), and yet no clear explanation for their physicochemical properties exists.Recent theoretical work suggests intriguing H-H interactions in the liquid, and particularly 'strange' interactions in the solid phases. We propose a large DINS experiment, as detailed in this proposal, to explore the state of the proton in these systems. We not ehtat VESUVIO is unique in being able to do this, and also that due to the distribution of masses in the system (H, Li and N) being easily separable on VESUVIO, addition information on the Li and N nuclear momentum distributions across this range of systems will be able to be collected simultaneously.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088545
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088545
Provenance
Creator Dr Andrew Seel; Professor Peter Edwards; Dr Matt Lodge; Dr James Calladine; Dr Thomas Murphy; Dr Alisdair Wriglesworth; Professor Mike George
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
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 2012-03-21T08:47:40Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-05-22T02:42:46Z