装置极化效率对极化中子成像质量的影响及修正分析

极化中子照相技术通过分析极化中子束的自旋相移对样品磁场进行成像, 自旋极化/分析装置是照相系统的主要组成部分. 引入中子自旋极化/分析装置的极化效率参数, 从中子极化矢量与磁场相互作用机理出发, 重新推导探测中子强度与磁场分布的定量关系, 利用谱仪模拟软件VITESS, 选取bender型超镜极化器和 ³He 自旋过滤器作为极化/分析装置, 对量化修正式进行验证, 并综合装置极化效率、单色器能量分辨精度和bender型极化器的几何结构等参数, 初步分析极化中子照相技术的磁场定量检测能力, 相关结果可为极化中子照相的实验数据处理技术研究及装置设计提供参考. 关键词： 极化效率 中子照相 磁场成像     

基于冷中子谱的紧凑型中子自旋倒相器设计

为节省极化中子散射谱仪传输光路的空间,实现特定冷中子谱的极化中子高效率自旋翻转,使用在空间上自然衰减的前端多层膜极化器静磁场作为中子自旋倒相器的导向磁场,在空间上形成了紧凑型冷中子自旋倒相器设计模型。介绍了实际模型物理参数的计算方法。对前端极化器静磁场在空间上的自然衰减进行了实验测试,根据测试结果及拟使用冷中子波段,针对设计的紧凑型中子自旋倒相器的相关参数进行了优化计算。模拟了极化中子在实际复合磁场中的自旋翻转图像,计算了自旋倒相器的翻转效率。对设计的紧凑型中子自旋倒相器进行了翻转效率物理实验测试,测试结果表明：设计的中子自旋倒相器翻转效率可在99.2%以上,达到了预期设计指标,可用于极化冷中子散射谱仪。     

极化中子技术

极化中子技术是利用中子的自旋与样品及磁场的相互作用进行测量的一种技术,是中子散射技术中的重要组成部分。极化中子技术已经成功地应用于磁性、强关联、纳米、自旋电子、高分子和生物等材料中,为前沿材料学研究与工业应用提供了所亟需的探测与表征手段。另外,极化中子也被广泛应用于核物理和粒子物理相关领域的基础测量。文章对极化中子技术的发展进行了简要的介绍,概括了极化中子实验所涉及的理论知识,以及在实验中所使用的主要技术,并在此基础上展示了当前极化中子技术在科研中的应用及其所使用的实验装置。     

基于散射实验极化靶的2.5T/1.3K的动态核极化(DNP)系统的开发

动态核极化法(Dynamic Nuclear Polarization,DNP)是利用热平衡下的电子在磁场中的高自旋极化率转移到原子核自旋的技术,从而极大的提高原子核自旋极化率.多种动态极化靶材料已广泛的用于自旋物理散射实验.本文介绍一种简单实用,共同开发的日本山形大学DNP系统,包括超导磁场,氦4蒸发恒冷器,微波系统以及NMR核磁共振检测系统,测得中子靶材料氘带丁醇(D-butanol)中氘核的极化率在2.5 T/1.3 K达到+6.5%.     

基于散射实验极化靶的2.5T/1.3K的动态核极化(DNP)系统的开发

动态核极化法(Dynamic Nuclear Polarization, DNP)是利用热平衡下的电子在磁场中的高自旋极化率转移到原子核自旋的技术,从而极大的提高原子核自旋极化率。多种动态极化靶材料已广泛的用于自旋物理散射实验。本文介绍一种简单实用,共同开发的日本山形大学DNP系统,包括超导磁场,氦4蒸发恒冷器,微波系统以及NMR核磁共振检测系统,测得中子靶材料氘带丁醇(D-butanol)中氘核的极化率在2.5T/1.3K达到+6.5%。     

一种基于成像板的能量卡阈式快中子图像测量方法

为减小散射中子等较低能量的中子对快中子图像的贡献,提出了在成像板前依次紧贴金属卡阈片和富氢元素薄片的能量卡阈式快中子成像方法.该方法通过改变卡阈片材料、厚度等参数,可有效降低成像结构对某一能段中子的相对灵敏度.以14 MeV中子照相为例设计的能量卡阈式成像结构为TR成像板依次覆盖约150μm Pb膜和500μm聚乙烯膜,计算表明该结构对8 MeV以下快中子灵敏度小于其对14 MeV中子灵敏度的30%.利用K400加速器DT中子源开展了验证实验,结果表明能量卡阈式快中子成像结构能够有效消除样品散射中子引起的边界增强效应.     

中子自旋干涉和地球引力的影响

本文分析了极化中子束通过突变磁场后, 在中子旋量分量之间发生的干涉, 即自旋干涉; 计算了地球引力的影响, 指出这种引力干涉现象不违背"弱等效原理"与COW实验的结果有显著区别.     

自旋极化中子物质的状态方程

在Brueckner–Hartree–Fock理论框架内,研究了自旋极化的中子物质的状态方程及其自旋依赖性,计算了自旋非对称能及相关的物理量如磁化率和朗道参数G₀,并着重讨论了三体核力的影响,结果表明:在整个自旋极化度范围内,中子物质的每核子能量随自旋极化度的变化都满足二次方规律,自旋对称能随密度单调增加,这意味着中子物质中不会发生由自旋非极化态向自旋极化态的自发相变,三体核力的主要效应是使中子物质磁化率随密度减小的速度加快,从而使中子物质的磁化相变更加困难.     

自旋极化核物质的状态方程

在Brueckner-Hartree-Fock理论框架内,研究了自旋极化核物质的状态方程及其自旋依赖性,计算了相关的物理量如朗道参数G₀和G′₀,并着重讨论了三体核力的影响.结果表明:在整个自旋极化度范围内,自旋极化核物质的每核子能量随中子和质子自旋极化度的变化相当精确地满足二次方规律,而且在Brueckner-Hartree-Fock理论框架内,自旋非极化核物质的能量总是比相应的自旋极化核物质的能量低,这表明核物质中不会发生由自旋非极化态向自旋极化态的自发相变.当密度较低时,三体核力对核物质状态方程的自旋依赖性的影响不明显;随着密度的增大,三体核力效应增强,而且三体核力使朗道参数G₀和G′₀增大,从而使核物质对于自旋涨落的稳定性增强     

弱磁场下三阱光学超晶格中自旋为1的超冷原子特性研究

双阱光学超晶格中的超冷原子是近期冷原子物理领域的研究热点. 本文推广提出了实现三阱光学超晶格的方案, 并采用精确对角化的方法分别研究了弱磁场下对称三阱 光学超晶格中铁磁性和反铁磁性的自旋为1的原子系统的基态, 发现二者的相图很不相同: 反铁磁性原子对应的相图中没有沿磁场方向总自旋磁量子数为±2的基态, 而铁磁性原子对应的相图中可能有. 在负的二次塞曼能量区域, 铁磁性原子的相图中只有完全极化态. 分析了可控参数影响基态的物理本质. 由于这些量子自旋态可以通过调节外磁场和光势垒的高度非常简便而精确地控制, 适合用来研究自旋纠缠. 关键词： 三阱光学超晶格 自旋为1的原子 弱磁场     

Polarized neutron imaging: A spin-echo approach

Polarized neutron imaging has recently been introduced as an efficient method to three-dimensionally visualize and measure magnetic fields even in the bulk of massive objects. Here we introduce a spin-echo approach for polarized neutron imaging, which has the potential to overcome some drawbacks of the first attempts, namely to deal with strong fields, arbitrary field directions and quantification. Furthermore our novel approach increases the efficiency of quantitative studies due to relaxed monochromatisation requirements for spin-echo neutron imaging and with respect to additional information available in the recorded images, which allows for straightforward quantification in many cases.     

一种可用于极化~3He实验的新型磁场系统

原子核自旋极化的~3He气体已被深入研究并广泛用于各种科学实验.在过去的极化~3He实验中,为了减小磁场梯度对纵向弛豫时间的影响,通常会建造大尺寸的亥姆霍兹线圈来提供所需均匀度的主磁场环境.本文通过计算得到了新的六正方形线圈系统,可以为极化~3He实验提供小型高均匀性的磁场装置.其中线圈系√统内部超过30%的区域磁场梯度满足(|▽B_x|~2+|▽B_y|~2)/B_0 10~(-4)cm~(-1),这一均匀区域比例超过了现在所有用于极化~3He实验的线圈装置.对于其他需要大均匀区域磁场环境的研究实验,新的六线圈系统也具有很好的应用价值.     

Estimation of the influence of scattered magnetic fields on the polarization of a beam of thermal neutrons during their propagation through an electromagnet-zero-field-chamber system using the Monte Carlo method

In spectrometers with polarized neutrons, the nonuniformity of the guiding field and also the scattered magnetic fields of separate components, which determine the behavior of the polarization vector, lead to partial polarization loss and decreasing accuracy of the obtained experimental data. A module created using the VITESS program package allows the behavior of neutron-beam polarization in fields measured separately or calculated using specialized software and imported into the VITESS to be simulated. This makes it possible to significantly improve the agreement between the simulation results and experimental data. This paper is dedicated to studying the behavior of the neutron polarization vector when neutrons propagate through a system of magnetic fields produced by an electromagnet and a zero-field chamber. Based on the performed calculations, the problem of optimization of the arrangement of the separate components of a spin-echo spectrometer is solved in this paper.     

On the Application of Zeeman Spatial Beam Splitting in Polarized Neutron Reflectometry

Zeeman spatial neutron beam splitting is considered upon reflection from a homogeneous magnetic film placed in an external magnetic field applied at an angle to the surface of a sample. Two ways of applying the Zeeman beam-splitting phenomenon in polarized neutron reflectometry are discussed. One of them is the construction of polarizing devices with a high polarization efficiency. The other is investigations of magnetically noncollinear films at a low spin-flip probability of reflected neutrons. The experimental results are presented for illustration.     

Development of the methods for simulating the neutron spectrometers and neutron-scattering experiments

Reviewed are the results of simulating the neutron scattering instruments with the program package VITESS upgraded by the routines for treating the polarized neutrons, as developed by the authors. The reported investigations have been carried out at the Frank Laboratory for Neutron Physics at JINR in collaboration with the Juelich research center (Germany). The performance of the resonance and gradient adiabatic spin flippers, the Drabkin resonator, the classical and resonance spin-echo spectrometers, the spin-echo diffractometer for the small-angle neutron scattering, and the spin-echo spectrometer with rotating magnetic fields is successfully modeled. The methods for using the 3D map of the magnetic field from the input file, either mapped experimentally or computed using the finite-elements technique, in the VITESS computer code, are considered in detail. The results of neutron-polarimetry experiments are adequately reproduced by our simulations.     

High proton polarization by microwave-induced optical nuclear polarization at 77 K

Protons in naphthalene and p-terphenyl doped with pentacene have been polarized up to 32% and 18%, respectively, at liquid nitrogen temperature in a magnetic field of 0.3 T by means of microwave-induced optical nuclear polarization. The polarization was measured by nuclear magnetic resonance as well as by the neutron transmission method. The relaxation time of the proton polarization at 0.0007 T and 77 K was found to be almost 3 h and the polarization enhancement reached a record value of 8x10(4). The usefulness of the method in many areas of physics and chemistry is discussed.     

Optimised adiabatic fast passage spin flipping for He neutron spin filters

We describe here a method of performing adiabatic fast passage (AFP) spin flipping of polarized ³He used as a neutron spin filter (NSF) to polarize neutron beams. By reversing the spin states of the ³He nuclei the polarization of a neutron beam can be efficiently reversed allowing for the transmission of a neutron beam polarized in either spin state. Using an amplitude modulated frequency sweep lasting 500 ms we can spin flip a polarized ³He neutron spin filter with only 1.8×10⁻⁵ loss in ³He polarization. The small magnetic fields (10-15 G) used to house neutron spin filters mean the ³He resonant frequencies are low enough to be generated using a computer with a digital I/O card. The versatility of this systems allows AFP to be performed on any beamline or in any laboratory using ³He neutron spin filters and polarization losses can be minimised by adjusting sweep parameters.     

Magnetized hot neutron matter: Lowest order constrained variational calculations

We have studied the spin polarized hot neutron matter in the presence of strong magnetic field. In this work, using the lowest order constrained variational method at finite temperature and employing _AV18${\mathrm{AV}}_{18}$ nuclear potential, some thermodynamic properties of spin polarized neutron matter such as spin polarization parameter, free energy, equation of state and effective mass have been calculated. It has been shown that the strong magnetic field breaks the symmetry of the free energy, leading to a magnetized equilibrium state. We have found that the equation of state becomes stiffer by increasing both magnetic field and temperature. The magnetic field dependence of effective mass for the spin-up and spin-down neutrons has been investigated.