2011 NCNR/NSF Summer School Course Materials
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The lecture presentations will be posted here as they come available.
Introduction to Neutron Scattering
Roger Pynn of Los Alamos National Laboratories has written a thorough series of lectures intended as an introduction to neutron scattering.
- Neutron Scattering - A Primer (PDF, 12.3MB) by Roger Pynn
- LECTURE 1: Introduction & Neutron Scattering “Theory”
- LECTURE 2: Neutron Scattering Instrumentation & Facilities
- Small Angle Neutron Scattering - Lecture Notes (PDF, 1.61MB) by Roger Pynn
- LECTURE 6: Inelastic Scattering
Inelastic Neutron Scattering Instrumentation
- The high-flux backscattering spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research by A. Meyer, et. al.
- The Disk Chopper Spectrometer at NIST: a new instrument for quasielastic neutron scattering studies by J.R.D. Copley, et. al.
- Time-of-flight spectroscopy and the Disk Chopper Spectrometer - John Copley
- A Lecture on the Neutron Spin-Echo Technique
- The Neutron Spin-Echo Technique and The Basic Equations on Neutron Spin-Echo
Session 1
Experimental Handouts
- HFBS Experiment Handout - Study of Methyl Group Rotations and Primary Relaxations in Poly(Vinyl Methyl Ether)
- NSE Experiment Handout - Shape fluctuations of a spherical surfactant shell in a microemulsion
- SANS Experiment Handout - Phase Transistions in Polymeric and Micellar Systems
Lectures
- Neutron Scattering - John Copley
- Small-Angle Neutron Scattering - Boualem Hammouda
- How Neutrons Are Produced - Bob Williams
- Introduction to Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy - Antonio Faraone
- Design Rules for Advanced Materials: Neutron Scattering and Neutron Spin Echo - Vijay Tirumala (Cabot Corporation)
- Choosing the Right Spectrometer - Peter Gehring
Student Presentations
- Student Research Highlights
- Student Presentation - High Flux Back Scattering
- Student Presentation - Neutron Spin Echo
- Student Presentation - Small Angle Neutron Scattering
Session 2
Experimental Handouts
- BT7 Triple-Axis Experiment Handout - Magnetic Phase Transition and Spin Wave Excitations in the Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites: An Experiment Using the BT7 Triple-Axis Spectrometer
- DCS Experiment Handout - Spin-wave excitations in the multiferroic antiferromagnet Mn1-xFexWO4: an experiment using the NCNR Disk Chopper Spectrometer
- MACS Experiment Handout - Probing one-dimensional fluctuations in a spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain using MACS
- SPINS Experiment Handout - Singlet-Triplet Dispersion in the Geometrically Frustrated S = 1 Antiferromagnetic Dimer Ba3Mn2O8: An Experiment Using the SPINS Triple-Axis Spectrometer
Lectures
- Time-of-Flight Spectroscopy and the Disk Chopper Spectrometer (DCS) - John Copley
- Thermal Triple Axis BT-7 for Inelastic Scattering - Jeff Lynn
- Science Highlights from HFBS - Madhu Tyagi
- An experiment using the SPINS cold-neutron, triple-axis spectrometer - Deepak Signh and Peter Gehring
- Choosing the Right Spectrometer - Peter Gehring
- Twist the magnetism in the multiferroic Mn
1-xMexWO4 (Me: Fe,Zn,Co) - Feng Ye (ORNL)