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10th Oxford School on Neutron Scattering

4-14 September 2007

University of Oxford, Mansfield College

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Lecture notes

All lecture notes are in PDF format.

Introductory theory

• The neutron (Gerry Lander)
• Neutron scattering theory (Andrew Boothroyd, University of Oxford)
• Polarised neutrons(Ross Stewart, ILL)
• Polarised neutrons: Spin echo (Ross Stewart, ILL)

Neutron diffraction

• Basic principles: symmetry, space groups, reciprocal space (Paolo Radaelli, ISIS)
• Structural methods: powder and single crystal (Paul Attfield, University of Edinburgh)
• Magnetic methods: powder and single crystal (Aziz Daoud-Aladine, ISIS)

Neutron spectroscopy

• Triple-axis spectrometers (Gerry Lander, Grenoble)
• Chopper spectrometers (Toby Perring, ISIS)
• High-resolution spectrometers (Bernhard Frick, ILL)

Applications

• Nanomagnetism (Sean Langridge, ISIS)
• Chemical applications 1 (Alberto Albinati, University of Milan)
• Chemical applications 2 (Alberto Albinati, University of Milan)
• Soft matter: Reflectometry (Jeff Penfold, ISIS)
• Soft matter: Small-angle scattering (Jeff Penfold, ISIS)
• Biology (Trevor Forsyth, ILL)
• Phase Transitions (Roger Cowley, University of Oxford)
• Engineering (Michael Preuss, University of Manchester)

Complementary methods

• A holistic approach to science (Andrew Harrison, ILL)
• Neutrons and muons (Andrew Harrison, ILL)
• Complementarity of neutrons and x-rays (Des McMorrow, University College London)

Neutron sources and instruments

• Neutron sources (Colin Carlile, Lund)
• Neutron instruments 1 (Colin Carlile, Lund)
• Neutron instruments 2 (Colin Carlile, Lund)

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