Abstract
A polarized 3He neutron-spin filter was used to analyze polarized neutrons reflected from a 1000-A-thick Fe film immersed in a magnetic field. The spin filter analyzed both the specularly reflected component and the off-specular component caused by the phenomenon of Zeeman splitting of surface-scattered neutrons observed by Felcher et al. and investigated in more detail in subsequent experiments. The sample of polarized 3He was polarized by metastability-exchange optical pumping and compressed into a glass cell at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. The polarized gas was transported by car in a battery-powered solenoid holding field to the neutron reflectometry instrument POSY I at the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source at Argonne National Laboratory. Using the large solid angle of the polarized 3He spin filter, we were able to simultaneously analyze both components to the scattering and verify (as expected) that the polarization of the specular component was unchanged upon reflection and that the polarization of the off-specular component was reversed. To our knowledge this work represents the second experiment to employ a polarized 3He neutron-spin filter in polarized neutron reflectometry.
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