Current Status of Neutron-Scattering Research and Facilities in the United States
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PREFACE
Contents
1. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
CONCLUSIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS
2. INTRODUCTION
3. CURRENT STATUS OF NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES
FACILITY DESCRIPTIONS
High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR)--Brookhaven National Laboratory
Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS)--Argonne National Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (MITR)
National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Reactors (ORNL)
University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR)
Weapons Neutron Research/Proton Storage Ring Facility (WNR/PSR) Los Alamos National Laboratory
Summary of Facilities
THE USER COMMUNITY
COMPARISON WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
4. OVERSEAS NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES
RESEARCH REACTORS
PULSED NEUTRON SOURCES
5. RECENT NEUTRON-SCATTERING RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES; COMPARISONS WITH EUROPE
CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS
Magnetic Systems
Phase Transition
New Materials and Phenomena
Crystal Dynamics
Defect Systems
Surfaces and Overlayers
Liquids and Glasses
Quantum Fluids
Classical Liquids
Glasses and Amorphous Solids
NEUTRON OPTICS
CHEMISTRY
Crystallographic Research
Hydrides, Organometallic Compounds, and Heteropoly Complexes
Ionic Conductors and Ceramics
Superconductors
Framework Structures
Charge-Density Studies
Hydrogen-Bonded Compounds
High-Precision Structure Studies
Molecular Fluids and Molten Salts
Chemical Spectroscopy
Vibrational Spectroscopy
Low-Energy Spectroscopy
BIOLOGY
Protein Crystallography
Solution Scattering
The Ribosome
Partially Ordered Systems
Inelastic Scattering
Conclusion
POLYMER AND COLLOID SCIENCE
Areas of Special Interest
Some Results from Neutron Scattering
Instrumentation Needs
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Studies of Microstructural Changes Produced by Temperature and Deformation
Use of SANS in the Detection and Analysis of Damage
Measurement of Texture and Residual Stresses by Neutron Diffraction
Investigations of Phase Decomposition
6. FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES: FACILITIES AND RESEARCH
CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS
CHEMISTRY
BIOLOGY
POLYMERS
MATERIALS SCIENCE
NEUTRON OPTICS
Role of Pulsed Sources
Concluding Remarks
APPENDIX A INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS OF USERS OF MAJOR NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES (JULY 1982-JUNE 1983)
UNIVERSITIES
INDUSTRIES
