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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
John Stride
Peter Geltenbort
| 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
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| June 14, 2005
June 22, 2005 | Emmanuel Farhi
and Mark Johnson
| Simulation of instruments and experiments |
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