Identifying the muon site in fluorine containing compounds

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Fluorides form model systems with which we can test ideas about muon sites. We therefore propose a series of short experiments on well-defined fluoride systems that will be supported by a programme of DFT+mu; calculations and simulations of the nuclear-dipole coupling Hamiltonian to model the decoherent relaxation. Strongly bound F-mu-F states are favoured in alkali fluorides by the very electronegative nature of fluorine and the small ionic radius of the fluoride ion. But what if F is not in that state? What happens if fluorine happens to be part of a polyatomic anion so that the negative charge is shared between other components of the anion? In that case will the fluorine be a less attractive site for the muon? This experiment is designed to answer these questions by examining a series of carefully chosen compounds in which fluorine is incorporated as part of a more complex anion.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920547-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/105604484
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Creator Professor Stephen Blundell; Dr John Wilkinson; Professor Tom Lancaster; Dr Franz Lang; Dr Francis Pratt; Mr George Gill
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-09-29T07:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-10-02T08:06:26Z