February 2, 2010
| Helmut Schober
| The neutron as a scientific probe
| a. Wave and particle properties b. The basic scattering process
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February 11, 2010
(sem1/ILL4)
| 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 nuclei:
i. fission: fragment excitation, kinetic energies and neutron emission
ii. spallation: reaction mechanism and particle emission
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February 16, 2010
| Hervé Guyon
Ken Andersen
| The production of free neutrons: fission and spallation | c. Technical realization i. The ILL neutron source ii. Spallation sources iii. Visit to level D at a later date (Peter Geltenbort)
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March 2, 2010
(15:30 - 17:00)
(sem1/ILL4)
| Ken Andersen
| The transport of neutrons
| a. Mirrors and supermirrors, guides
b. Air scattering
c. Lenses etc
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March 11, 2010
| Roland Gähler
| Coherence and scattering
| a. Coherence of a neutron beam b. Correlation functions and scattering c. SANS, TOF, TAS, NSE ... - what you 'see' and how far you see
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March 18, 2010
| Yoann Calzavara
| The moderation of neutrons and source properties
| a. Thermalization processes, cross-sections, H2O/D2O
b. Hot and cold sources
c. Spectral distribution
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March 25, 2010 | Jiri Kulda
| Tayloring of neutrons
| a. Crystal Monochromators, focussing in real and reciprocal space
b. Time-of-flight filtering, focusing in time
c. Visit to monochromator and neutron-optics laboratories later in the week (Pierre Courteois and Thierry Bigault) |
April 1, 2010
| Mechthild Enderle | Inelastic-scattering overview I | a. Lattice vibrations
b. Spin waves
c. Triple-axis spectrometry |
April 8, 2010
| Peter Fouquet
| Interaction with the sample | a. Superposition of spherical waves
b. Coherent and incoherent scattering
c. Resolution
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April 15, 2010 | Pascale Deen | Polarizing neutrons
| a. Polarizing supermirrors
b. Polarizing monochromators
c. Guide fields |
April 22, 2010
| Roland Gähler | Coherence and scattering II
| a. Coherence of a neutron beam
b. Correlation functions and scattering
c. SANS, TOF, TAS, NSE ... - what you 'see' and how far you see
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April 29, 2010
| Bruno Guérard
| The detection of neutrons | a. Generalities: absorption process,
b. Gas detectors
c. Microstrip detectors
d. Scintillators, image plates, CCDs
e. Visit to detector lab at a later date
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May 6, 2010
| Bachir Ouladdiaf
| Diffraction overview | a. Monochromatic single-crystal diffraction
b. Laue diffraction
c. Powder diffraction
d. Polarized-neutron diffraction
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May 13, 2010
| Peter Fouquet
Stefan Rols
| Inelastic-scattering overview II | d. Spin-echo spectrometry
e. Time-of-flight spectrometry
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May 20, 2010
| Andrew Wildes
| Small-angle scattering, and reflectivity overview |
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May 27, 2010 | Roland Gähler | Coherence and scattering II | a. Coherence of a neutron beam b. Correlation functions and scattering
c. SANS, TOF, TAS, NSE ... - what you 'see' and how far you see |
June 3, 2010 (sem1/ILL4)
| Ulli Koester | Nuclear and fundamental physics at the ILL | a. Instruments
b. Typical experiments
c. Medical applications |
June 10, 2010 | Emmanuel Farhi
| Simulation of instruments |
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June 17, 2010
| Mark Johnson
| Simulation of experiments |
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June 24, 2010 | Peter Fouquet
Stefan Rols | Inelastic-scattering overview II | d. Spin-echo spectrometry
e. Time-of-flight spectrometry |
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