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5.2 The coherent backscattering cone in high resolution<br />

3.25 x 104 scattering angle θ CCD<br />

[deg]<br />

3.2<br />

3.15<br />

3.1<br />

f = 58%<br />

f = 49%<br />

f = 47%<br />

f = 43%<br />

f = 39%<br />

intensity [a.u.]<br />

3.05<br />

3<br />

2.95<br />

2.9<br />

2.85<br />

2.8<br />

0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3<br />

Figure 5.19: <strong>Backscattering</strong> for various volume fractions. The transport mean free path<br />

is expected to be proportional to the volume fraction of the fluidized bed. However, due<br />

to strong fluctuations in the data no real trend in the width of the backscattering cone<br />

can be observed.<br />

For the fluidized bed with f = 43% one reads <strong>from</strong> fig. 5.18 and with eqn. 2.16 a transport<br />

mean free path between 50 µm and 60 µm. This would mean that l ∗ is significantly shorter<br />

than the diameter of the particles in the fluidized bed, and it stands in strong contrast to<br />

reported mean free paths <strong>from</strong> similar experiments (e.g. [52, 17, 39, 41, 46, 51, 57]), which are<br />

all of the order of several particle diameters.<br />

As the present data are only first results and the experiments are still ‘work in progress’,<br />

there are all kinds of possible explanations for this surprising result, of both theoretical and<br />

experimental nature. These will have to be discussed and investigated if further experiments<br />

on fluidized beds or similar systems are planned for the future.<br />

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