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Unusual statistics of interference effects in neutron scattering from compound nuclei

Unusual statistics of interference effects in neutron scattering from compound nuclei

We consider interference effects between p-wave resonance scattering amplitude and background s-wave amplitude in low-energy neutron scattering from a heavy nucleus which goes through the compound nucleus stage. The first effect is in the difference between the forward and backward scattering cross sections (the ${\mathbf{p}}_{i}\ensuremath{\cdot}{\mathbf{p}}_{f}$ correlation). Because of the chaotic …