Neutron diffraction experiments have been used to investigate the structural and magnetic ordering in the moderately disordered heavy fermion compound UPd1.85Sn. The material crystallizes in the fully ordered cubic Heusler lattice of Fm3m symmetry. Below the antiferromagnetic transition temperature TN=25.7 K magnetic Bragg scattering has been observed. The magnetic spectrum can be accounted for by an antiferromagnetic wave vector \vec {k} = [0 0 0], i.e., the magnetic and crystallographic unit cells are identical. The magnetic moment is evaluated to \mu ord = 0.97(9) \mu B.
PACS numbers: 75.25.+z, 75.30.Mb, 75.50.Ee
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