[Discussion] Go over neutron scattering basics briefly

I want to go through some basics about neutron scattering, from neutron production, scattering, data reduction to what we usually use neutron scattering for. This is meant to be very brief introduction and therefore I won't go into any details. This is just to give you a feel about neutron scattering.

  1. How neutrons are produced?

    Reactor (e.g., HFIR at ORNL) and spallation (e.g. SNS at ORNL)

  2. Other facilities similar to SNS?

    NIST (US), ILL (France), ISIS (the UK), ESS (Sweden) CSNS (China) and JSNS (Japan)

  3. Constant wavelength? Time of flight?

    Experimental side. Analysis side. Attached here is my learning note, Neutron_Scattering_Summary_Main.pdf.

  4. Experiments?

    Not only sample, but also background and others.

  5. Reduction?

    In accordance with experiments (measurements for background, etc.)

    Necessary corrections

    Calibration

  6. What do we do with reduced neutron data?

    Bragg

    Total scattering

    Fundamentally, we want to know structure, nucleus and/or magnetic

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