For a monochromatic neutron beam incident on a single crystal prism, we derived analytic expressions for variations of the deflection
dcr and transmitted fraction IO of forward diffracted neutrons, with the incidence angle ?. In the vicinity of a Bragg reflection,
dcr deviates sharply from the deflection
dam for an equivalent amorphous prism, reaching opposite extrema at either end of the total reflectivity domain and exhibits a 3 orders of magnitude greater sensitivity to
q
than dam. We have experimentally observed the variation of
dcr and IO across a Bragg reflection for single crystal silicon prisms of various apex angles in several asymmetric Bragg configurations. The observed
dcr
deviates from d am by upto 27% with sensitivities |ddcr/dq| upto 0.43 arcsec/arcsec. The results are in harmony with theory. This observation has led to the design of a super-collimator Brag. |