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Inelastic Scattering of 4He Atoms by the Free Surface of Liquid 4He

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With the intention of measuring the accommodation coefficient of 4He, i.e., the probability that an atom hitting the surface of the liquid will be captured, Eckardt et al.1 (EEGS) designed the following experiment (Fig. 1).

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  1. Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    C. G. Kuper

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  1. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

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  2. National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA

    K. D. Timmerhaus

  3. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

    E. F. Hammel

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Kuper, C.G. (1974). Inelastic Scattering of 4He Atoms by the Free Surface of Liquid 4He. In: Timmerhaus, K.D., O’Sullivan, W.J., Hammel, E.F. (eds) Low Temperature Physics-LT 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7864-8_108

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