Neutron scattering investigation of ice under hydrostatic helium pressure

Abstract Results of the inelastic incoherent neutron scattering investigations of water and ice in the 273–114K temperature interval under hydrostatic helium pressures up to 300 MPa are presented. It is shown that ice III is not formed in the process of isobaric cooling, but at about 239 K, a helium clathrate crystallizes. Its inelastic incoherent neutron scattering spectrum is close to that of ice II and this phase evidently is a solid solution of helium in ice II, in conformity with the results of a neutron diffraction study by D. Londono, et al. The position of the low-energy cutoff of the librational band follows the regularity found earlier for the dependence of the generalized phonon density of states on density of high pressure phases of pure ice.