Null Fizeau effect for thermal neutrons in moving matter

1 February 1985

journal article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 31 (2) , 1203-1205
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.31.1203

Abstract

We have carried out an interferometer experiment to determine the phase shift of slow neutrons caused by the motion of a material medium. Within experimental error, we confirm the theoretical prediction of a null result for the case when the medium moves inside stationary boundaries. Upper limits on the energy dependence of neutron-nucleus potential and on the wavelength dependence of s-wave neutron scattering lengths are deduced.

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