Neutron Scattering Lengths

This page contains tables of bound coherent neutron scattering lengths. The tables can be downloaded in portable document format (pdf). The first column of the tables, Z-Symb-A,  gives the nuclides´ charge number Z, the element symbol and the mass number A. The column %orT1/2 contains either natural abundance or half live, column I the nuclear spin. The scattering lengths columns are denoted by bc for the bound coherent scattering lengths, b+ for spin-dependent scattering lengths for I + ½, and b- for spin-dependent scattering lengths for I - ½, all in fm. Abbreviations for experimental methods (column Meth) are BD for Bragg diffraction, CF for Christiansen filter, DD for Dynamical diffraction, GR for Gravity Reflection, IN for Neutron Interferometry, M for Many methods, NP for Nuclear orientation, PR for Prism reflection, TM for Transmission, and TR for Total refraction. Download full references for the abbreviations in column Ref.
 

Data according to:
  • LANDOLT-BÖRNSTEIN, New Series I/16A (Ed. H. Schopper) Chap.6, Springer, Berlin 2000

  • H. Rauch, Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, A-1020-Wien
    W. Waschkowski, Reaktorstation, D-85747-Garching
  • Atomic Data Nuclear Data Tables 49 (1991) 65

  • L. Koester, Reaktorstation, D-85747-Garching
    H. Rauch, E. Seymann, Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, A-1020-Wien

Last changes by E. Jericha & M. Hainbuchner: 14.2.2001
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Martin Hainbuchner, Erwin Jericha