Barker, J.
and Mildner, D.
(2017),
Survey of Background Scattering from Materials found in Small-Angle Neutron Scattering, Journal of Applied Crystallography, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=918036
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Survey of Background Scattering from Materials found in Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
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Measurements and calculations of beam attenuation and background scattering for common materials placed in a neutron beam are presented over the temperature range of 300 K to 700 K. Time-of-flight (TOF) measurements have also been made to determine the fraction of the background that is either inelastic or quasi-elastic scattering. Other background sources considered including double Bragg diffraction from windows or samples, scattering from gases and phonon scattering from solids. We discuss methods of maximizing the signal-to-nose (S/N) by material selection, choice of sample thickness and wavelength, removal of inelastic background by TOF or filters, and removal of spin flip scattering with polarized beam analysis.Citation
Journal of Applied Crystallography
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48
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Small angle neutron scattering, background scattering, multiple scattering, inelastic scattering, phonons, double Bragg scattering
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Created February 19, 2017