Neutron crystallography beamline

  • What are neutron beams used for?

    Neutron beams are especially useful in advanced industrial inspection, most notably for neutron radiography, or neutron imaging.
    A collimated neutron beamline can be used to create radiographic neutron imaging of an object's internal structure, just as can be done with a beam of X-rays or gamma rays..

  • What is the wavelength of the neutron beam?

    The neutron beam is generated by a nuclear reactor, and input through two slits to a sample holder (as shown in Fig. 1).
    The wavelength of the beam is constant at 0.88 nm with an accuracy of 2.7 % in the case of MINE..

  • Neutron diffraction is a technique for investigating the structure of condensed matter.
    Crystal structures can be studied by diffraction, either by diffraction from a polycrystalline powder or from a single-crystal sample.
  • Neutron diffraction or elastic neutron scattering is the application of neutron scattering to the determination of the atomic and/or magnetic structure of a material: A sample to be examined is placed in a beam of thermal, hot or cold neutrons to obtain a diffraction pattern that provides information of the structure
Beamline features include elliptical focusing mirrors that deliver neutrons into a 2.0 × 3.2 mm2 focal spot at the sample position, and variable short and long wavelength cutoff optics that provide automated exchange between multiple wavelength configurations.
The beamline features include elliptical focusing mirrors that deliver neutrons into a 2.0×3.2mm2 focal spot at the sample position, and variable short and long wavelength cutoff optics that provide automated exchange between multiple wavelength configurations.

How parallel is a neutron beamline?

How parallel the beamline is depends on the ratio between the collimator’s length and the diameter of its aperture

One important quality of a neutron beam is its temperature—how much energy the neutrons traveling in that beam have

What are neutron beam applications?

The Neutron Beam Applications group develops novel instrumentation and methods for neutron scattering and imaging

These include the optimization of neutron focusing mirrors, so called Wolter mirrors, and the use of polarized neutron imaging for studying magnetic materials


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