Neutron reflectometry study of liquid 3He/4He mixture surface

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In our recent experiment RB1120146 we obtained exciting new results on neutron scattering from the liquid helium surface. At 2.3K there was no difference in reflectivity between pure 4He and isotopic mixtures. However, at 0.4K a significant difference was observed, suggesting the presence of a substantial number of 3He atoms close to the surface as predicted theoretically by Andreev almost half a century ago. Unfortunately we cannot fit the data using the neutron reflection model available at ISIS due to optical distortion caused by liquid helium meniscus. We propose to repeat our latest Crisp experiment on the neutron reflectometer Polref, which has a much higher flux and better neutron beam configuration flexibility. The main aim of the experiment is to obtain reflectivity density profiles by quantitative analysing of non-distorted experimental data.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.47832209
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/47832209
Provenance
Creator Professor Peter McClintock; Dr Oleg Kirichek; Professor Sean Langridge; Dr Christy Kinane; Dr Timothy Charlton
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
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 Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-02-27T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-03-06T18:19:43Z