February 9, 2005

Helmut Schober

The neutron as a scientific probe

a. Wave and particle properties

b. The basic scattering process

February 17, 2005

Herbert Faust

The production of free neutrons: Fission and Spallation

a. From quarks to nucleons and heavy elements:
i. nuclear binding forces
ii. production schemes
b. Destroying heavy nulei:
i. fission: fragment excitation, kinetic energies and neutron emission
ii. spallation: reaction mechanism and particle emission

Feburary 22, 2005

Hervé Guyon

The production of free neutrons: Fission and Spallation

c. Technical realization

i. The ILL neutron source

ii. Spallation sources

iii. Visit of level D during the following week

March 22, 2005

François Plewinski
and Roland Gähler

The moderation of neutrons and source properties

a. Thermalization processes, cross-sections, H2O/D2O
b. Cold and Hot sources
c. Spectral distribution
d. Coherence compared to x-rays

April 5, 2005

Jiri Kulda

Helmut Schober

Ken Andersen

Filtering of neutrons

a. Crystal Monochromators, Focussing in real and reciprocal space
b. Time-of-flight filtering, Focusing in time
c. Visit of monochromator laboratory during the following week

April 12, 2005

Ken Andersen

The transport of neutrons

a. Mirrors and Supermirrors, guides
b. Air scattering
c. Lenses etc
d. Visit of LON laboratory during the week

May 3, 2005

Helmut Schober

Interaction with the sample

a. Superposition of spherical waves
b. Coherent and incoherent scattering
c. Resolution

May 11, 2005
May 18, 2005

Bruno Guérard

The detection of Neutrons

a. Generalities: Absorption process,
b. Gas detectors
c. Scintilators and image plates (McIntyre/Popov)
d. Microstrip detectors
e. Visit of detector lab during the week

May 24, 2005

Ross Stewart

Polarizing neutrons

a. Polarizing supermirrors
b. Polarizing monochromators
c. Guide fields

May 31, 2005

Peter Fouquet

Spin-Echo. Classical and resonant

June 14, 2005
June 22, 2005

Emmanuel Farhi
and Mark Johnson

Simulation of instruments and experiments