Quantitative structure refinement from the ARCS chopper spectrometer

The new wide angular-range chopper spectrometer ARCS at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been successfully used in white-beam mode, with no Fermi chopper, to obtain neutron powder diffraction based atomic pair distribution functions (PDFs). Obtained PDF patterns of Si, Ni, and Al₂O₃ were refined using the PDFfit method and the results compared to data collected at the NPDF diffractometer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. High quality resulting fits are presented, demonstrating that reliable powder diffraction data can be obtained from ARCS when operated in this configuration.