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Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 185301 (2005) [4 pages]

Search for Anomalous Scattering of keV Neutrons from H2O-D2O Mixtures

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R. Moreh1,2,*, R. C. Block2, Y. Danon2, and M. Neumann2
1Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
2Gaerttner LINAC Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA

Received 20 January 2005; published 12 May 2005

We measured the neutron scattering intensities from pure liquid H2O relative to that of pure D2O and also relative to H2O-D2O mixtures, at room temperature. This study is relevant to the problem of quantum entanglement. The neutrons were generated from an electron Linac and the final energy of the scattered neutrons was fixed at 24.3 keV using a 20 cm thick pure iron filter. The scattering intensity ratios were found to agree with expected values deduced from the tabulated total cross sections within an accuracy of 3%. Thus no anomaly was observed.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.185301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.185301
PACS:
67.20.+k, 61.12.Ex, 61.25.Em

*Electronic address: moreh@bgumail.bgu.ac.il