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Note: On the Electric Moment of Neutron

OU1937-B9 (8 pages) Date: June 22, 1937

This note contains Yukawa’s thoughts on the dipole electric moment as well as its calculations. If neutrons have an electric moment, neutrons are scattered by the electric field even though neutrons have no electric charge. Yukawa tried to solve the problem of scattering caused by the electric moment of the neutrons in a Coulomb field by using the Schrödinger equation. From page 2, Yukawa performs calculations using partial wave expansion, but to no avail.

(English translation by KSI.)
Historical materials courtesy of Yukawa Hall Archival Library, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University (E27-050)
OU1937-B9-E27-050
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