Diffuse Scattering Spectrometer D7

The diffuse scattering spectrometer, D7, is a general purpose neutron polarization analysis spectrometer, designed to study nuclear/magnetic short range ordered materials, and magnetic defect structures.

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Phone on instrument D7+33 (0)4 76 20 7161

Instrument Team

NameFirst namePhone(s)SecretaryEmailFunction
WILDESAndrew+33 (0)4 76 20 7037
+33 (0)4 76 20 7331
+33 (0)4 76 20 7060wildes(at)ill.frResponsible
CLANCYWayne+33 (0)4 76 20 7911 +33 (0)4 76 20 7060clancy(at)ill.frTechnician

Instrument description

D7 is a cold neutron multidetector diffractometer with full XYZ polarisation analysis.  This allows the unambiguous separation of nuclear, magnetic and nuclear-spin-incoherent scattering contributions simultaneously over a large range of scattering vector Q, and is therefore ideal in the study of diffuse scattering from disordered magnetic materials.   The addition of a neutron Fermi chopper, transforms D7 into a time-focusing time-of-flight spectrometer with polarisation analysis. The current set-up allows polarisation analysis with an incident energy of Ei ~ 3meV. An evacuated flightchamber, between the sample and analysers, will shortly be implemented enabling us to separate magnetic from nuclear excitations with an incident energy of  Ei ~ 9meV.

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