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Investigating time-of-flight spin-echo modulation for small-angle neutron scattering through experiments and simulation

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Author

  • Morten Sales
  • Jeroen Plomp
  • Klaus Habicht
  • Markus Strobl

Summary, in English

A spin-echo-modulated small-angle neutron scattering (SEMSANS) instrument in a time-of-flight (TOF) mode will be able to excel at pulsed neutron sources such as the European Spallation Source (ESS), currently under construction. This work compares experimental data from a TOF SEMSANS setup, where a spatial beam modulation of a white beam is obtained using triangular field coils, with Monte Carlo ray-tracing simulations. The experiments and simulations in accordance demonstrate that a good contrast can be achieved when using a constant field in the triangular coils. In the reported setup only neutrons with certain wavelengths rotate by a Larmor precession angle that spatially modulates their polarization to coincide with the period of a grating installed at the detector position. This is shown by measuring with a broad wavelength range while scanning the echo condition.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

92-96

Publication/Series

Journal of Applied Crystallography

Volume

48

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

International Union of Crystallography

Topic

  • Natural Sciences
  • Physical Sciences

Keywords

  • spin-echo-modulated small-angle neutron scattering
  • time-of-flight mode

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1600-5767