ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Data Journal

ALC studies of solid benzene

Abstract: For muoniated radical spectroscopy studies, benzene has long been the classic prototype system. However most of these studies have been at higher temperatures, often in the liquid phase, whereas calculations of hyperfine coupling are generally made at zero temperature, deep in the solid phase. It is therefore desirable to obtain reference ALC data for benzene extending to as low a temperature as possible, to allow accurate comparison to be made with DFT computations of the full hyperfine tensor including the effects of zero point motion. HiFi will be therefore be used to study the ALC spectrum of solid benzene over as wide a range of temperature as possible and spectral anomalies suggested by previous reports will also be investigated further, in particular a low temperature spectral feature that is suggested to be a signature of quantum diffusion of muonium round the ring.

Principal Investigator: Dr Francis Pratt
Experimenter: Dr Stephen Cottrell
Experimenter: Professor Tom Lancaster
Experimenter: Dr Jamie Peck

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1520458

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1520458

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

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