Current status of neutron-scattering research and facilities in the United States / Panel on Neutron Scattering, Solid State Sciences Committee, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Neutron Scattering.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neutrons--Scattering.

Neutrons.

Nuclear facilities.

Nuclear physics--Research.

Nuclear physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (115 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1984.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Current Status of Neutron-Scattering Research and Facilities in the United States""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""1. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""2. INTRODUCTION ""; ""3. CURRENT STATUS OF NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES ""; ""FACILITY DESCRIPTIONS""; ""High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR)

Brookhaven National Laboratory""; ""Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS)

Argonne National Laboratory""; ""Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (MITR)""; ""National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR)""

""Oak Ridge National Laboratory Reactors (ORNL)""""University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR)""; ""Weapons Neutron Research/Proton Storage Ring Facility (WNR/PSR) Los Alamos National Laboratory""; ""Summary of Facilities""; ""THE USER COMMUNITY""; ""COMPARISON WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY""; ""4. OVERSEAS NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES ""; ""RESEARCH REACTORS""; ""PULSED NEUTRON SOURCES""; ""5. RECENT NEUTRON-SCATTERING RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES; COMPARISONS WITH EUROPE ""; ""CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS""; ""Magnetic Systems""; ""Phase Transition""; ""New Materials and Phenomena""

""Crystal Dynamics""""Defect Systems""; ""Surfaces and Overlayers""; ""Liquids and Glasses""; ""Quantum Fluids""; ""Classical Liquids""; ""Glasses and Amorphous Solids""; ""NEUTRON OPTICS""; ""CHEMISTRY""; ""Crystallographic Research""; ""Hydrides, Organometallic Compounds, and Heteropoly Complexes""; ""Ionic Conductors and Ceramics""; ""Superconductors""; ""Framework Structures""; ""Charge-Density Studies""; ""Hydrogen-Bonded Compounds""; ""High-Precision Structure Studies""; ""Molecular Fluids and Molten Salts""; ""Chemical Spectroscopy""; ""Vibrational Spectroscopy""

""Low-Energy Spectroscopy""""BIOLOGY""; ""Protein Crystallography""; ""Solution Scattering""; ""The Ribosome""; ""Partially Ordered Systems""; ""Inelastic Scattering""; ""Conclusion""; ""POLYMER AND COLLOID SCIENCE""; ""Areas of Special Interest""; ""Some Results from Neutron Scattering""; ""Instrumentation Needs""; ""MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING""; ""Studies of Microstructural Changes Produced by Temperature and Deformation""; ""Use of SANS in the Detection and Analysis of Damage""; ""Measurement of Texture and Residual Stresses by Neutron Diffraction""

""Investigations of Phase Decomposition""""6. FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES: FACILITIES AND RESEARCH ""; ""CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS""; ""CHEMISTRY""; ""BIOLOGY""; ""POLYMERS""; ""MATERIALS SCIENCE""; ""NEUTRON OPTICS""; ""Role of Pulsed Sources""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""APPENDIX A INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS OF USERS OF MAJOR NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES (JULY 1982-JUNE 1983)""; ""UNIVERSITIES""; ""INDUSTRIES""

Notes:

Work supported by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, Division of Materials Sciences, under grant No. DE-FG01-81ER10844, and by the National Science Foundation under grant No. DMR-8119500.

ISBN:

9786610186341

9781280186349

1280186348

9780309564465

0309564468

OCLC:

923269029