Neutron inelastic experiments on actinide dioxides: Search for crystal field excitations

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Abstract

Neutron scattering has proved to be an effective probe of high-energy magnetic excitations. Recent measurements on AnO2 (An=U, Np, Pu) performed at spallation source-based spectrometers have made important contributions in the understanding of the crystal field potential in such systems. The experimental results are consistent with a fairly constant potential across the series and suggest that the ground state wave functions may be expressed almost entirely within a single J-manifold.

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