Neutron Scattering – Fundamentals

✍ Scribed by Felix Fernandez-Alonso and David L. Price (Eds.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Leaves: 555
• Series: Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences 44
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This work covers in some detail the application of neutron scattering to different fields of physics, materials science, chemistry, biology, the earth sciences and engineering. Its goal is to enable researchers in a particular area to identify aspects of their work in which neutron scattering techniques might contribute, conceive the important experiments to be done, assess what is required to carry them out, write a successful proposal for one of the major user facilities, and perform the experiments under the guidance of the appropriate instrument scientist.

The authors of the various chapters take account of the advances in experimental techniques over the past 25 years--for example, neutron reflectivity and spin-echo spectroscopy and techniques for probing the dynamics of complex materials and biological systems. Furthermore, with the third-generation spallation sources recently constructed in the United States and Japan and in the advanced planning stage in Europe, there is an increasing interest in time-of-flight techniques and short wavelengths. Correspondingly, the improved performance of cold moderators at both reactors and spallation sources has extended the long-wavelength capabilities.

• Chapter authors are pre-eminent in their field
• Seminal experiments are presented as examples
• Provides guidance on how to plan, execute and analyse experiments

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Series Page
Page ii

Copyright
Page iv

Contributors
Pages xi-xii

Volume in Series
Pages xiii-xv

Preface
Pages xvii-xix
Felix Fernandez-Alonso, David L. Price

Symbols
Pages xxi-xxiii

Chapter 1 - An Introduction to Neutron Scattering
Pages 1-136
David L. Price, Felix Fernandez-Alonso

Chapter 2 - Neutron Sources
Pages 137-243
Francisco J. Bermejo, Fernando Sordo

Chapter 3 - Experimental Techniques
Pages 245-320
Masatoshi Arai

Chapter 4 - Structure of Complex Materials
Pages 321-352
Silvia C. Capelli

Chapter 5 - Large-Scale Structures
Pages 353-413
Jeffrey Penfold, Ian M. Tucker

Chapter 6 - Dynamics of Atoms and Molecules
Pages 415-469
Mark R. Johnson, Gordon J. Kearley

Appendix - Neutron Scattering Lengths and Cross Sections
Pages 471-528
Javier Dawidowski, José Rolando Granada, Javier Roberto Santisteban, Florencia Cantargi, Luis Alberto Rodríguez Palomino

Index
Pages 529-545

✦ Subjects

Физика;Практикумы, экспериментальная физика и физические методы исследования;