Summer School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy

NIST Center for Neutron Research
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899

June 25-29, 2007

Course Materials

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For an introduction to neutron scattering the summer school students are recommended to take a look at
neutron scattering - A PRIMER by Roger Pynn
LAUR-95-3840
Los Alamos Science, Vol. 19, 1990.

GENERAL LECTURE PRESENTATIONS

• Dynamics and neutron scattering (PDF 12.22 MB)
  
• Choosing the right neutron spectrometer (PDF 1.11 MB)
  
• The NIST Research Reactor and Cold Neutron Source (PDF 2.75 MB)
  
• Radiation safety - Health physics (PDF 4.86 MB)
  
• Radiation, radioactivity and risk assessment (poster) (PDF 1.44 MB)

INSTRUMENT LECTURE PRESENTATIONS

• Gas adsorption in metal organic frameworks: an experiment using the NCNR Disk Chopper Spectrometer (PDF 2.02 MB)
  
• Quantum rotations in methyl iodide (HFBS) (PDF 586 KB)
  
• Magnetic phase transition and spin fluctuations in the geometrically frustrated antiferromagnetic spinel CdCd₂O₄: an experiment using the SPINS cold-neutron triple axis spectrometer (PDF 6.83 MB)
  
• Shape fluctuations of a spherical surfactant shell in a microemulsion (NSE) (PDF 2.96 MB)

INVITED LECTURES

• Using neutron spectroscopy to study collective dynamics of biological and model membrane systems (PDF 3.37 MB)
  
• Scattering neutrons from magnons, spinons, solitons, and breathers (PDF 7.16 MB)

EXPERIMENT HANDOUTS

• Quantum rotations in Methyl Iodide (CH₃I) (HFBS experiment) (PDF 535 KB)
  
• The Magnetic Phase Transition and Spin Fluctuations in the Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnetic Spinel CdCr2O4: An Experiment using the SPINS Triple-Axis Spectrometer (PDF 682 KB)
  
• Gas Adsorption in Metal Organic Frameworks: an experiment using the NCNR Disk Chopper Spectrometer (PDF 752 KB)
  
• Shape fluctuations of a spherical surfactant shell in a microemulsion (NSE experiment) (PDF 924 KB)

MISCELLANEOUS HANDOUTS

• Time-of-flight measurements using the Disk Chopper Spectrometer (PDF 252 KB)
• Neutron spin echo spectroscopy (PDF 252 KB)

STUDENT GROUP PRESENTATIONS

• Backscattering spectrometer, group C (PDF 428 KB)
• Backscattering spectrometer, group D (PDF 2.80 KB)
• Spin Echo spectrometer, group A (PDF 2.84 MB)
• Spin Echo spectrometer, group D (PDF 1.36 MB)
• SPINS spectrometer, group A (PDF 1.41 MB)
• SPINS spectrometer, group B (PDF 1.08 MB)

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