Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, USSR;Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble-Cedex, France;State Institute for Rare Metals (GIREDMET), Moscow, USSR
Abstract:
We report the.results of an experimental determination of the crystal field splitting of Pr3+ in PrAl2 by means of inelastic neutron scattering. For the crystal field parameters we obtain B4 = (47.2 ± 4.0) × 10?4 meV and B6 = ? (156 ± 12) × 10?6 meV.