INTERFEROMETER FOR COLD NEUTRONS USING MULTILAYER MIRRORS

Authors
FUNAHASHI H EBISAWA T HASEYAMA T HINO M MASAIKE A OTAKE Y TABARU T TASAKI S
Citation
H. Funahashi et al., INTERFEROMETER FOR COLD NEUTRONS USING MULTILAYER MIRRORS, Physical review. A, 54(1), 1996, pp. 649-651
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
10502947
Volume
54
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
649 - 651
Database
ISI
SICI code
1050-2947(1996)54:1<649:IFCNUM>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
We report a successful experimental test of an interferometer for cold neutrons using multilayer mirrors. Interference fringes that are anal ogous to the Brewster's fringes in classical optics have been clearly observed using the cold neutron beam with a wavelength of 12.6 Angstro m and a bandwidth of 3.5% at full width at half maximum. The observed interference fringes demonstrate the coherence of the reflection off t he multilayer neutron mirror and confirm the feasibility of cold neutr on interferometry using multilayer mirrors.