A Monte Carlo simulation code applied to diffraction experiments with polarization analysis

7th Meeting of the Spanish Neutron Scattering Association

Palomino, L A Rodríguez^1,2 ; Stunault, A.^1 ; Dawidowski, J.^2 ; Temleitner, L.^3 ; Pusztai, L.^3 ; Cuello, G.J.^1

Institut Laue Langevin, 71, av des Martyrs, Grenoble

38042, France^1

Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Instituto Balseiro, Bustillo 9500, Bariloche

R8402AGP, Argentina^2

Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Konkoly Thege út 29-33, Budapest

H-1121, Hungary^3

关键词: Correction procedure;    Direct measurement;    Experimental protocols;    Experimental techniques;    Interference structures;    Linear combinations;    Polarization analysis;    Scattering cross section;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/663/1/012002/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/663/1/012002

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Neutron diffraction with polarization analysis is a very useful technique to separate the coherent and incoherent contributions to the scattering cross section. This experimental technique allows the direct measurement of the spin-flip and non spin-flip contributions, which in turn are related to the coherent and incoherent contributions by simple linear combinations. Nevertheless, the correction procedures to obtain the single coherent elastic scattering are tricky. We present a method, based on Monte Carlo simulation, that allows one performing these corrections in a wide variety of coherent and incoherent samples. In this work, we have applied this method to the study of heavy water, for which we obtained the interference structure factor. We describe the experimental setup to perform the measurements in a reactor source and we detail the experimental protocol allowing the determination of the non spin-flip and spin-flip diffractograms.