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A G Seel1, M Ceriotti, P P Edwards
1Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QR, UK. andrew.seel@stfc.ac.uk
Abstract:
We present momentum widths and mean kinetic energies of lithium and fluorine in (7)LiF, as determined simultaneously from deep inelastic neutron scattering (DINS) measurements. Experimental data across a temperature range from 4 to 300 K are presented, and these results compared to those calculated using a quasi-harmonic density-functional approach. In all cases, measured momentum widths are seen to be within approximately 5% of those calculated, despite the very low scattering cross sections of both (7)Li and (19)F. This is the first determination and comparison with theory of such simultaneous measurements for nuclei of mass > 4 amu, and demonstrates the implementation of the DINS method in its current form as a mass-selective neutron spectroscopy.
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