U 5$f$ crystal-field ground state of UO${}_2$ probed by directional dichroism in nonresonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Martin Sundermann, Gerrit van der Laan, Andrea Severing +4

Nonresonant inelastic x-ray scattering (NIXS) has been performed on single crystals of UO${}_2$ to study the direction dependence of higher-order-multipole scattering from the uraniu…