A better view through new glasses: Developments at the Jülich neutron spin echo spectrometers

Olaf Holderer; Piotr Zolnierczuk; Stefano Pasini; Laura Stingaciu; Michael Monkenbusch

doi:10.1016/j.physb.2018.11.021

A better view through new glasses: Developments at the Jülich neutron spin echo spectrometers

Olaf Holderer
, Piotr Zolnierczuk
, Stefano Pasini
, Laura Stingaciu
, Michael Monkenbusch

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Abstract

Thermal fluctuations in soft matter systems take place on length- and time scales of nanometers and nanoseconds, accessible with neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy. New developments in instrumentation as well as data treatment opened the door for new measurements with highest precision for subtle effects and gains in energy resolution. Superconducting main coils with optimized field shape have been installed at the J-NSE recently, providing better resolution and more flux for a given resolution. The magnetic shielding of the SNS-NSE provides unprecedented phase stability, which has been exploited to study tiniest effects of additives to membrane fluctuations in microemulsions. New software for data evaluation, DrSPINE provides the intermediate scattering function in an easy and robust way. Scientific highlights and trends in NSE spectroscopy will be discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9-12
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter
Volume	562
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2018.11.021
State	Published - Jun 1 2019
Externally published	Yes

Funding

This research at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source was sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy . This work is based upon experiments performed at the J-NSE instrument operated by JCNS at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Garching, Germany.

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Neutron spin echo
Superconducting dynamics

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