Willis B.T.M., Carlile C.J. Experimental Neutron Scattering

Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2009. — 340 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–851970–6.The first systematic experiments in neutron scattering were carried out in the 1940s on fission reactors built for the nuclear power and nuclear weapons programmes. Since then the community of neutron users has expanded enormously. Crystallographers were amongst the first to exploit the new technique, and they were soon followed by condensedmatter physicists interested in the magnetic and vibrational properties of crystals. In the 1960s chemists were attracted into the field, and later biologists, using the wide range of wavelengthspro vided by cold neutron sources. Engineers and earth scientists are the most recent recruits to the club.
Because of the requirement to produce an intense source of neutrons, neutron scattering can only be performed at a few central facilities. According to a report of the European Neutron Scattering Association there are now more than 4,000 part-time and full-time users of neutron scattering in Europe alone. Over half of them are part-time users: they visit central installations, such as the Institut Laue Langevin (Grenoble), ISIS (Oxford), Saclay (Paris), Hahn-Meitner Institut (Berlin), FRM-II (Munich) or Paul Scherrer Institut (Villigen), for short periods to carry out experimentson samplesthat they also examine with other techniques in their home laboratories.-General considerations
-Neutron properties
-The production of neutrons
Neutron diffraction
-Single crystal diffraction
-The powder diffraction method -
-Polarized neutrons and magnetic neutron diffraction
-Small-angle neutron scattering
-Neutron optics
-Neutron reflectometry
-Liquids, glasses and amorphous materials
Neutron spectroscopy
-Coherent inelastic scattering from single crystals: study of phonons and magnons
-Inelastic neutron scattering spectroscopy
-Quasi-elastic scattering and high-resolution spectroscopy
Appendixes
Glossary of special terms
Neutron scattering lengths and cross-sections of the elements