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Mar 20 – 23, 2023
Campus Garching
Europe/Berlin timezone

Detailed study of the neutron scattering from highly oriented pyrolytic graphite

Mar 20, 2023, 4:00 PM
2h
Yards 4 - 6 (Fakultät für Maschinenwesen)

Yards 4 - 6

Fakultät für Maschinenwesen

Board: MO-121
Poster Neutron Instrumentation, Optics, Sample Environment, Detectors, and Software Poster Session MONDAY

Speaker

Kristine Krighaar (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

Description

Pyrolytic graphite (PG) has a high Bragg reflectivity for neutrons and is therefore much used for monochromators and analyzers in all types of backscattering and triple-axis spectrometers (TAS).

PG can also be the source of background signals since it has low velocity phonon branches. If interpreted as Bragg scattering, these phonon branches will appear as broad spurious background signals. This has led to some backscattering instruments installing cooling to obtain better signal background ratio, but the need for cooling for TAS is disputed.

We here present an investigation of the total scattering features of PG at different temperatures. We used a diffractometer to obtain a 2D scattering map of a PG analyzer crystal. Intensities span 5 orders of magnitude and consist of Bragg diffraction, powder rings, phonon scattering and surprisingly also a signal that appears as specular reflectivity at high q.

We present a model of all features in the data using McStas UNION, and a new general Born-von Karman phonon description for McStas, we can effectively map scattering features in instruments as a function of both temperature and nominal analyzer energy. Our results show that while backscattering instruments do need cooling, TAS do not, due to a different orientation of the phonon scattering cloud. We argue that our McStas model will be useful to investigate scattering geometries of a wide range of instruments and determine possibilities of spurious signals and phonon contamination.

Primary author

Kristine Krighaar (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

Co-authors

Prof. Christof Niedermayer (Paul Scherrer Institute) Dr Jacob Larsen (Technical University of Denmark) Jakob Lass (Paul Scherrer Institut) Dr Jonas Birk (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen) Prof. Kim Lefmann (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen) Dr Mads Bertelsen (European Spallation Source, ERIC) Dr Marton Marko (Paul Scherrer Institute) Dr Matthias Frontzek (Paul Scherrer Institute) Niels Bech Christensen (Technical University of Denmark) Dr Rasmus Hansen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen) Dr Rasmus Toft-Petersen (Technical University of Denmark) Ms Xiaoyu Wang (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

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