Summer School on the Fundamentals of Neutron Scattering
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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
Experimental Handouts
- BT7 Dynamics Experiment Handout - Magnetic Phase Transition and Spin Wave Excitations in the Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites
- CH4 Tunneling MOFs Experiment Handout - Rotational Tunneling of Methane in Metal Organic Frameworks.
- HFBS Methyl POSS Experiment Handout - Study of Methl Rotations in Octamethyl-POSS.
- NSE Experiment Handout - Shape Fluctuations of a Spherical Surfactant Shell in a Microemulsion.
- MACS Experiment Handout - Probing One-dimensional Fluctuations in a Spin - 1/2 Antiferromagnetic Chain using MACS.
Staff and Invitied Talks
- NCNR Science Highlights - Craig Brown (NCNR)
- How to Obtain Beamtime - Paul Butler (NCNR)
- Introduction to Neutron Spectroscopy - John Copley (NCNR)
- Choosing the Right Spectrometer - Peter Gehring (NCNR)
- Neutron Scattering as a Probe of the Magnetic, Structural, and Spin Dynamical Properties of Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites - Joel Helton (US Naval Academy)
- Radiation Safety Training - Thomas Johnston (NCNR)
- How Neutrons Are Produced: The NIST Research Reactor and Cold Neutron Sources - Robert Williams (NCNR)
Student Presentations
- Shape variations of spherical shell microemulsion using Neutron Spin Echo - Group A
- Dynamics of Methane Adsorbed on MOFs by Disk Chopper Spectrometer - Group B
- Spin Wave Excitations in the COllossal Magnetoresistive Manganite La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 - Group C
- Using MACS to probe spinon in 1-D S= 1/2 antiferromagnetic chain - Group D
- Study of Methyl Rotations in Octamethyl-POSS - Group E