Abstract

We examine the elastic scattering of slow neutrons by a standing electromagnetic wave. It is shown that the real part of the coherent scattering amplitude arises essentially from the interaction of the induced electric dipole moment in the neutron with the electric field of the wave. The imaginary part of the coherent scattering amplitude arises from the interference between the magnetic dipole and spin-orbit interaction terms.

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