%0 journal article
%@ 1063-7745
%A Akselrod, L.A., Gordeev, G.P., Zabenkin, V.N., Lazebnik, I.M., Wagner, V., Eckerlebe, H.

%D 2007
%J Crystallography Reports
%N 3
%P 403-406 
%R doi:10.1134/S1063774507030091
%T Observation of chiral ordering of moments in the magnetic mesostucture of the (Pd0.984Fe0.016)0.95Mn0.05 alloy by means of polarized neutrons
%U https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063774507030091
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%X Investigation of the magnetic structure of the diluted (Pd0.984Fe0.016)0.95Mn0.05 alloy at meso-and nanoscale levels by means of two techniques of small-angle polarized-neutron scattering (within a direct beam and beyond it) has been performed in the temperature range 10<T<60 K. The dependences of the neutron beam depolarization, the polarization rotation angle, and the polarization-dependent magnetic scattering cross section on a weak (0<H<40 A/cm) external magnetic field have been studied. A simple model of neutron beam depolarization by a sample with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy was used to analyze the results obtained. The experiment on polarized-neutron scattering in the so-called direct geometry showed the existence of a polarization-dependent scattering cross section. This scattering has left-right asymmetry and depends on temperature. Comparison of these results with the depolarization data leads to a conclusion about the existence of static chiral fluctuations in large-scale inhomogeneities.