Negative muon spin rotation and relaxation for MgB2

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In order to show a potential power of a negative muon spin rotation and relaxation (mu-SR) technique for observing local magnetic environments, we here want to propose a mu-SR experiment on MgB2. Here, negative muons are trapped by either Mg or B. The negative muons trapped by B will provide no mu-SR signal due to nuclear magnetic moment of B, while the muons trapped by Mg will do a clear mu-SR signal formed by nuclear magnetic moments of B. Therefore, we will see a local magnetic field from the Mg site. This has a significant advantage over the positive muon spin rotation and relaxation (mu+SR) technique, because positive muons are known to diffuse in MgB2 even at temperatures above 12.5 K. As a result, it is very difficult to study a dynamic behavior of the internal magnetic field, particularly at around the superconducting transition temperature (39 K).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98001789
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98001789
Provenance
Creator Professor Martin Mansson; Dr Izumi Umegaki; Dr Aidy Hillier; Dr Jun Sugiyama; Mr Peter Benedek; Dr Ola Kenji Forslund; Dr Elisabetta Nocerino
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-10-16T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-20T09:00:21Z