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CHAPTER 5<br />

High precision determination of the neutron coherent scattering length<br />

5.0 Introduction<br />

Neutron interferometry as alluded to earlier, affords the most precise determination of the coherent<br />

scattering length. Dynamical diffraction of neutrons in a single crystal enables splitting of the<br />

neutron wave amplitude into two coherently coupled subbeams separated by a few cm. Insertion of<br />

a sample into one of the beam paths introduces a phase shift proportional to the optical path<br />

neutrons<br />

H-detector<br />

sample<br />

Phase<br />

flag<br />

O-detector<br />

Fig.50 Our proposal depicting the phase measurement by recording the interferograms with the<br />

thick sample placed alternately in subbeams I and II of the symmetric LLL IFM.<br />

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