| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Seaborg Institutes: Emerging Topics in Actinide Materials and Science
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| Presentation Title |
Magnetic Dichroism in Ga-stabilized d-Pu |
| Author(s) |
Jason Jeffries, Alexander Baker, G Fabbris, Daniel Haskel |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Jason Jeffries |
| Abstract Scope |
A prevailing model of Pu invokes a spin and orbital cancellation model to predict structural evolution. The hallmark of this spin/orbit cancellation model is the presence of anti-parallel, on-atom spin and orbital moments of identical magnitude (or nearly so) near 3 Bohr magnetons each. Such an offsetting magnetic configuration would be nearly invisible to bulk probes that see only the total moment but x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) can offer a glimpse into the local, atomic magnetic configuration. Herein, we will discuss the results of dichroism measurements at the M4 and M5 edges of Ga-stabilized d-Pu acquired at a temperature of 2 K and in magnetic fields up to 60 kOe.
This work was performed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. This research used resources of the APS; a DOE/OS user facility operated by ANL under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |