Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9837941 Physica B: Condensed Matter 2005 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
A system of a polarizing solid state bender and a collimator was built and tested. The bender consists of a stack of thin silicon wafers coated with polarizing FeCo-Si supermirrors. The stack is deflected in the middle by one wafer thickness. Inserted in an unpolarized neutron beam this device works as a spin splitter by transmitting the spin down component without any change in its flight path and reflecting the spin up component. With a collimator behind the bender it can be selected which one of the spin components is transmitted. In this way a transmission polarizer for neutrons with wavelengths above 4 Å was built which has a total length of less than 10 cm.
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