Abstract
Abstract After a discussion of the electromagnetic contributions to the neutron-nucleus scattering length we report on methods for the determination of scattering lengths and on precision techniques which allow the separation of the electromagnetic from the nuclear scattering length. We used this effect for a new determination of the effective neutron-electron scattering length to be -(1.32±0.04) × 10 -3 fm and for the separation of the electric polarization scattering of the neutron. At the present status of the experiment we obtain polarization scattering lengths from experiments on Pb and Bi which correspond to an electric polarizability of the neutron of (3±4) × 10 -3 fm 3 , in agreement with theoretical predictions.
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