| Preface | |
| M. UTSURO | |
| Symposium Photo |
| Committee |
| Supports and Acknowledgments |
| Message to the Symposium ''Neutron Optics in Kumatori '96'' | |
| C. G. SHULL | |
| Welcome Address | |
| Y. MAEDA | |
| Message from Japanese Ministry | |
| K. ICHIKAWA | |
| Chapter 1. Fundamental Physics of Neutron Optics |
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| Fundamentals of Neutron Optics | |
| V. F. SEARS | 1 |
| Multiple Wave Scattering Formalism and the Rigorous Evaluation of Optical Potential for Three-dimensional Periodic Media | |
| V. K. IGNATOVICH | 7 |
| Dynamic Neutron Optics | |
| A. I. FRANK and V. G. NOSOV | 13 |
| Quantum Mechanical Observation | |
| M. NAMIKI | 19 |
| Synthesized Larmor Precessions and Particle Density Waves | |
| F. MEZEI | 25 |
| Proposed Fundamental Investigations Using Neutron Interference Filters and Gravity Spectrometry | |
| I. V. BONDARENKO, A. I. FRANK, S. N. BALASHOV, S. V. MASALOVICH and V. G. NOSOV | 29 |
| Effect of Fluctuation and Dissipation on Neutron Scattering | |
| H. NAKAZATO, K. MACHIDA, M. NAMIKI and S. PASCAZIO | 33 |
| Off-Specular Neutron Reflection from Magnetic Media with Nondiagonal Reflectivity Matrices | |
| D. K. KORNEEV, V. I. BODNARCHUK and V. K. IGNATOVICH | 37 |
| Estimation of Tunneling Time Based on the Quantum Diffusion Process Approach and Neutron Scattering | |
| I. OHBA, K. IMAFUKU and Y. YAMANAKA | 41 |
| Chapter 2. Neutron Interferometry |
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| Quantum Optics View of Neutron Interferometry | |
| H. RAUCH | 45 |
| Quantum Phase Shifts Induced by Gravity and Rotation | |
| S. A. WERNER | 51 |
| Polarized Neutron Interferometry | |
| G. BADUREK | 60 |
| Neutron Spin Quantum Precession Using Multilayer Spin Splitters and a Phase-Spin Echo Interferometer | |
| T. EBISAWA, S. TASAKI, T. KAWAI, M. HINO, T. AKIYOSHI, N. ACHIWA, Y. OTAKE and H. FUNAHASHI | 66 |
| Quantum Phase Shift of de Broglie Waves by Spatial Confinement | |
| S. GRIFFIN, A. CIMMINO, A. KLEIN, G. OPAT, B. E. ALLMAN and S. A. WERNER | 71 |
| Neutron Interferometric Separation of Geometric and Dynamical Phases | |
| A. G. WAGH, V. C. RAKHECHA, J. SUMMHAMMER, G. BADUREK, H. WEINFURTHER, B. E. ALLMAN, H. KAISER, K. HAMACHER, D. L. JACOBSON and S. A. WERNER | 73 |
| Neutron Polarization Control by Interferometer | |
| S. NAKATANI, T. TAKAHASHI, H. TOMIMITSU and S. KIKUTA | 77 |
| New Type of Neutron Polarizer for Neutron Interferometer | |
| A. IOFFE, P. FISCHER, T. KRIST and F. MEZEI | 80 |
| Study of Electromagnetic Structure of the Neutron by Neutron Interferometry Method | |
| A. IOFFE, M. VRANA and V. ZABIYAKIN | 82 |
| Two Wavelength Difference Measurement of Gravitationally-Induced Quantum Interference Phases | |
| K. LITTRELL, B. E. ALLMAN, K. HOAG and S. A. WERNER | 86 |
| Geometric Phase in a Split-Beam Experiment Measured with Coupled Neutron Interference Loops | |
| Y. HASEGAWA, M. ZAWISKY, H. RAUCH and A. IOFFE | 90 |
| Neutron Interferometric Measurement of Neutron Pair Correlations for Multiple Detectors | |
| D. L. JACOBSON, B. E. ALLMAN, M. ZAWISKY, S. A. WERNER and H. RAUCH | 94 |
| Neutron Interferometry in Non- Inertial Reference Frames | |
| K. LITTRELL, S. A. WERNER and B. E. ALLMAN | 98 |
| A Neutron Interferometric Test for Quaternion Quantum Mechanics | |
| B. E. ALLMAN, K. LITTRELL, A. KLEIN, A. CIMMINO, G. OPAT and S. A. WERNER | 102 |
| Chapter 3. Neutron Reflectometry |
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| Inverting Specular Neutron Reflectivity from Symmetric, Compactly-Supported Potentials | |
| N. F. BERK and C. F. MAJKRZAK | 107 |
| Polarized Neutron Reflectometry on Exchange Coupled Superlattices | |
| A. SCHREYER | 113 |
| Mesoscopic Multiphase Structures and the Interfaces of Block & Graft Copolymers in Bulk | |
| Y. MATSUSHITA | 119 |
| Surface and Interface Roughness of a Binary-Liquid System | |
| U. S. JENG, L. ESIBOV, M. L. CROW and A. STEYERL | 124 |
| Studies on Microphase-Separated Structures of Block Copolymers by Neutron Reflectivity Measurement | |
| N. TORIKAI, I. NODA, Y. MATSUSHITA, A. KARIM, S. K. SATIJA, C. C. HAN and T. EBISAWA | 128 |
| A Neutron Reflectometer Installed at the Cold Neutron Triple-Axis Spectrometer (LTAS, C2-1) in JRR-3M | |
| K. SOYAMA, N. METOKI, N. MINAKAWA, Y. MORII, N. TORIKAI and Y. MATSUSHITA | 133 |
| Investigation of Surface Metal Oxide Formed in 10-4 Torr Oxygen by Neutron Reflectometry | |
| S. TASAKI, T. EBISAWA and T. KAWAI | 136 |
| Unique Analysis of Neutron Specular Reflection Measurements | |
| H. LEEB, R. LIPPERHEIDE and G. REISS | 138 |
| Chapter 4. Optics of Ultracold Neutrons |
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| Fundamental Physics with Ultracold Neutrons | |
| A. STEYERL and S. MALIK | 143 |
| Ultracold Neutron Bottle for Neutron Decay Studies | |
| M. UTSURO, Y. KAWABATA, A. YAMAGUCHI, T. MIYACHI, S. TASAKI and K. OKUMURA | 149 |
| Confinement of UCN in a Multiple Cusp Magnetic Field | |
| N. INOUE, H. NIHEI, N. AKIYAMA and K. KINOSITA | 155 |
| Neutron Microscope with Phase Contrast | |
| S. MASALOVICH and A. FRANK | 159 |
| A New Type of Solid-State Detector for Ultra-Cold Neutrons | |
| T. KITAGAKI, O. KONNO, M. HIGUCHI, M. SATO, T. KAWASHIMA, E. SATO, M. UTSURO and Y. KAWABATA | 163 |
| Chapter 5. Optics of Polarized Neutrons |
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| Test of Parity and Time Reversal Invariance with Low Energy Polarized Neutrons | |
| A. MASAIKE | 169 |
| Neutron Interferometry Method of Study of Parity Violation in Cold Neutron Transmission | |
| A. IOFFE | 174 |
| Search for Neutron EDM Using Crystal Techniques | |
| C. M. E. ZEYEN, Y. OTAKE, T. TABARU and B. TOPERVERG | 177 |
| Neutron Spin Echo Optics | |
| N. ACHIWA, M. HINO, S. TASAKI, T. Ebisawa, T. AKIYOSHI and T. KAWAI | 183 |
| A Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometer with an Assembly of Position Sensitive Detectors | |
| T. TAKEDA, H. SETO, S. KOMURA, S. K. GHOSH, M. NAGAO, J. MATSUBA, H. KOBAYASHI, T. EBISAWA, S. TASAKI, C. M. E. ZEYEN, Y. ITO, S. TAKAHASHI and H. YOSHIZAWA | 189 |
| Multichannel Neutron Polarizers Produced in PNPI | |
| A. SCHEBETOV, N. PLESHANOV, V. SYROMYATNIKOV, V. PUSENKOV, B. PESKOV, G. SHMELEV, Z. SOROKO and V. UL'YANOV | 195 |
| Polarizing Beam-Splitter Device at a Pulsed Neutron Source | |
| S. ITOH and M. TAKEDA | 199 |
| Traversal Time through Magnetic Thin Film Using Larmor Precession | |
| M. HINO, N. ACHIWA, S. TASAKI, T. EBISAWA, T. AKIYOSHI and T. KAWAI | 203 |
| Experiment on Transportation of Very Cold Neutron Flux by a Multipole Magnetic Field | |
| N. AKIYAMA, H. NIHEI, N. INOUE, M. UTSURO and Y. KAWABATA | 207 |
| A New Neutron Polarizer for Neutron Interferometry Experiments | |
| W. T. LEE, O. MOTRUNICH, B. E. ALLMAN and S. A. WERNER | 210 |
| Chapter 6. New Techniques in Neutron Optics |
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| Neutron Resonance Spin Echo | |
| W. BESENBÖCK, P. HANK, M. KÖPPE, R. GÄHLER, T. KELLER and R. GOLUB | 215 |
| Neutron Depolarization Measurement by Using Pulsed Polarized Neutrons | |
| Y. ENDOH | 221 |
| Magnetically Remanent Single Layer Neutron Polarizers | |
| T. KRIST, R. GÖTTEL, P. SCHUBERT-BISCHOFF and F. MEZEI | 226 |
| A Multilayer Cold Neutron Pulser Working under an External Magnetic Field Less than 50 Gauss | |
| T. KAWAI, T. EBISAWA, S. TASAKI, T. AKIYOSHI, M. HINO, N. ACHIWA, Y. OTAKE and H. FUNAHASHI | 230 |
| Polarizing Neutron Guide of a V-Shape-Mirror with Pulsed Cold Neutrons | |
| M. TAKEDA, K. KURAHASHI, Y. ENDOH and S. ITOH | 234 |
| On the Neutron Reflectivity of Different Nickel Mirrors | |
| R. M. A. MAAYOUF | 238 |
| Bent Crystal Analyzer in Fully Asymmetric Diffraction Geometry for Neutron Scattering Instrumentation | |
| P. LUKÁŠ, Z. KOUŘIL, P. MIKULA, J. ŠAROUN, P. STRUNZ, M. VRÁNA and V. WAGNER | 241 |
| The Osiris Polarization Analysis Spectrometer and Diffractometer | |
| D. MARTÍN, S. CAMPBELL and C. J. CARLILE | 245 |
| Upgrade of Neutron Guides with Use of Supermirrors | |
| K. AL USTA, K. N'GUY, A. MENELLE and F. SAMUEL | 249 |
| NDT-Observation of Superalloy Single Crystals Grown into the Gas-Turbine Blade | |
| H. TOMIMITSU, K. IIJIMA, K. AIZAWA and A. YOSHINARI | 252 |
| Chapter 7. Very Low Energy Neutron Sources |
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| Production and Storage of Ultra Cold Neutrons at Pulse Neutron Sources with Low Repetition Rates | |
| Y. N. POKOTILOVSKI and A. Yu. MUZYCHKA | 255 |
| Experimental Study of a Solid-Deuterium Source of Ultracold Neutrons | |
| A. P. SEREBROV, V. A. MITYUKHLYAEV, A. A. ZAKHAROV, A. G. KHARITONOV, V. V. NESVIZHEVSKII, M. S. LASAKOV, R. R. TAL'DAEV, A. V. ALDUSHCHENKOV, V. E. VARLAMOV, A. V. VASIL'EV, G. L. GREENE and T. J. BOWLES | 259 |
| Ultra Cold Neutrons at a Spallation Source | |
| T. J. BOWLES, R. HILL, G. L. GREENE, S. J. SEESTROM and A. P. SEREBROV | 264 |
| Design of High Efficiency Supermirror Neutron Turbine | |
| Y. KAWABATA and M. UTSURO | 267 |
| Chapter 8. Other Recent Developments |
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| 8A. Neutron Optics |
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| New Aspects of Dynamical Diffraction Phenomena of Neutrons | |
| T. TAKAHASHI | 271 |
| Gravity and Inertia in Neutron Crystal Optics and VCN Interferometry | |
| K. RAUM, M. WEBER, R. GÄHLER and A. ZEILINGER | 277 |
| Spin Interference of Neutrons Tunneling through Magnetic Thin Films | |
| M. HINO, N. ACHIWA, S. TASAKI, T. EBISAWA, T. AKIYOSHI and T. KAWAI | 281 |
| Quantum Zeno Effect | |
| S. PASCAZIO, H. NAKAZATO and M. NAMIKI | 285 |
| Fabrication and Characterization of Nickel Titanium Multilayer Neutron Supermirrors | |
| S. BASU, G. S. LODHA, K. YAMASHITA, K. HAGA, K. MISAKI and K. AKIYAMA | 289 |
| Neutron Spin Tomography: A Tool to Visualize Magnetic Domains in Bulk Materials | |
| M. HOCHHOLD, H. LEEB and G. BADUREK | 292 |
| Fabrication and Performance of a Large Wavelength Band Multilayer Monochromator | |
| P. HØGHØJ, I. S. ANDERSON, T. EBISAWA and T. TAKEDA | 296 |
| 8B. Neutron Sources |
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| The Research Reactor Project FRM-II and its Neutron Guide System | |
| E. STEICHELE | 299 |
| Multipurpose Research Reactor JRR-3M and its Neutron Beam Experimental Facilities | |
| N. ONISHI, M. MATSUBAYASHI and K. SOYAMA | 303 |
| Characteristics and Applications of a Polycapillary Neutron Focusing Lens | |
| D. F. R. MILDNER, H. H. CHEN-MAYER and R. G. DOWNING | 308 |
| The Focusing Mirror at the ILL Spin-Echo Spectrometer IN15: Experimental Results | |
| C. HAYES, C. LARTIGUE, A. KOLLMAR, J. R. D. COPLEY, B. ALEFELD, F. MEZEI, D. RICHTER and T. SPRINGER | 312 |
| Neutron Beam Control Using Polycapillary Optics | |
| Q. F. XIAO, V. A. SHAROV, R. G. DOWNING, H. H. CHEN-MAYER and D. F. R. MILDNER | 316 |
| Monolithic Polycapillary Neutron Focusing Lenses: Experimental Characterizations | |
| H. H. CHEN-MAYER, D. F. R. MILDNER, V. A. SHAROV, J. B. ULLRICH, I. Yu. PONOMAREV and R. G. DOWNING | 319 |
| Neutron Guide Facility at the ET-RR-1 Reactor | |
| R. M. A. MAAYOUF, V. TROUNOV, V. KUDRYASHEV, A. BULKIN, I. A. ABDEL-LATIF and A. S. EL-KADY | 322 |
| Chapter 9. Summaries |
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| Summary of Chapter 1 (Fundamental Physics of Neutron Optics), Chapter 2 (Neutron Interferometry), and the Related Poster Sessions. | |
| H. RAUCH | 325 |
| Summary for Chapter 3 (Neutron Reflectometry), Chapter 4 (Optics of Ultracold Neutrons) and Chapter 7 (Very Low Energy Neutron Sources) | |
| A. STEYERL | 327 |
| Summary on Chapter 5 (Optics of Polarized Neutrons) and Chapter 6 (New Techniques in Neutron Optics) | |
| R. GÄHLER | 329 |
| Summary Remarks on Chapter 8 (Other Recent Developments) and the Related Poster Sessions | |
| V. K. IGNATOVICH | 333 |
| Author lndex | 339 |
| Keyword Index | 341 |
| List of Participants | 344 |
