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Polarized neutron Laue diffraction on a crystal containing dynamically polarized proton spins

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JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages 30-34

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INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
DOI: 10.1107/S0021889812048376

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  1. Swedish Research Council
  2. EPSRC [EP/J016977/1, EP/G027161/1] Funding Source: UKRI
  3. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G027161/1, EP/J016977/1] Funding Source: researchfish

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A polarized neutron Laue diffraction experiment on a single crystal of neodymium-doped lanthanum magnesium nitrate hydrate containing polarized proton spins is reported. By using dynamic nuclear polarization to polarize the proton spins, it is demonstrated that the intensities of the Bragg peaks can be enhanced or diminished significantly, whilst the incoherent background, due to proton spin disorder, is reduced. It follows that the method offers unique possibilities to tune continuously the contrast of the Bragg reflections and thereby represents a new tool for increasing substantially the signal-to-noise ratio in neutron diffraction patterns of hydrogenous matter.

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