The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Linear Accelerator was used to produce a pulsed neutron beam that was incident on a U scattering sample 30 m from the source. Eight liquid scintillator (EJ-301) proton recoil fast neutron detectors located at several angles surrounding the sample were positioned at a distance 0.5 m. Neutrons resulting from elastic scattering, inelastic scattering, and fissio...

We reviewed our structure studies on poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) gels formed in the mixtures of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and water using various scattering methods, including wide-, smalland ultra-small-angle neutron scattering and light scattering. These studies revealed the hierarchic structure of PVA gels formed in DMSO/water (60/40 v/v) in a very wide spatial scale from 1 Å to several microm...

The application of neutron scattering techniques to magnetic problems is reviewed. We will first discuss diffraction techniques used to solve magnetic structures, as well as to measure magnetic form factors, order parameters, critical phenomena, and the scattering from low-dimensional systems. We will also discuss inelastic scattering techniques, including polarized beam methods, utilized to de...

This chapter gives a short introduction into neutron scattering instrumentation to allow the non-specialist reader to acquire the basics of the method necessary to understand the technical aspects in the topical articles. The idea is not to go into details but to elaborate on the principles as general as possible. We start with a short discussion of neutron production at large-scale facilities....

Neutron Compton scattering measurements have the potential to provide direct information about atomic momentum distributions and adia-batic energy surfaces in condensed matter. First applied to measuring the condensate fraction in superfluid helium, the technique has recently been extended to study a variety of classical and quantum liquids and solids. This article reviews the theoretical backg...

A tyrosyl radical, as part of the amino acid chain of bovine liver catalase, supports dynamic proton spin polarization (DNP). Finding the position of the tyrosyl radical within the macromolecule relies on the accumulation of proton polarization close to it, which is readily observed by polarized neutron scattering. The nuclear scattering amplitude due to the polarization of protons less than 10...

2014 In this paper, it is shown how the formalism of the canonical symmetry adapted functions can be used to analyse neutron scattering data related to orientationally disordered molecular crystals when the rotational dynamics of the molecule is assumed to be independent of the lattice dynamics. In this approximation, the rotational contribution to the intermediate scattering function is expand...

Hospital-based proton facilities may represent a major advance in radiation therapy, in part because of excellent dose distributions around the tumor, and in part because of the potentially lower whole-body dose compared with photon radiotherapy. Most current proton beams are spread out to cover the tumor using beam scattering and collimation techniques (passive scattering); this will necessari...

We report a comparison of high resolution inelastic x-ray Brillouin scattering to coherent inelastic neutron scattering for amorphous deuterated polybutadiene, done for one temperature in the glass phase and another one in the melt. The x-ray scattering proves to be by far the better technique for such a polymer within its present resolution bounds. The neutron scattering allows one to extend t...