European Conference on Neutron Scattering 2023

Session

Plenary

PLE

20 Mar 2023, 09:45

Campus Garching

Conveners

Plenary

• Werner Paulus (ICGM, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, Montpellier, France)
• Martin Müller (Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH)

Plenary

• Stephan Förster (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Plenary

• Marc Janoschek (Paul Scherrer Institut)
• Dieter Lott (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon)

Plenary

• Jonathan White (Paul Scherrer Institute)
• Thomas Brückel (JCNS-2 & PGI-4, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany)

529. Advances in Neutron Imaging

Markus Strobl (PSI)

21/03/2023, 09:45

Neutron Instrumentation, Optics, Sample Environment, Detectors, and Software

Plenary (only invited by ECNS team!)

Neutron imaging has seen a remarkable transformation from a non-destructive testing tool spotting cracks on millimetre length scales in industrial components to a diverse research tool in material science and beyond. Direct spatial resolutions of a few micrometers are state of the art today, but also structural features down to the Angstrom regime can be probed through modalities sensitive to...

519. Disclosing the unknown deep inside biomembranes

Valeria Rondelli (Università degli Studi di Milano)

23/03/2023, 09:45

Soft Condensed Matter

Plenary (only invited by ECNS team!)

Cell membranes are complex objects made by several different molecular species. One of their most significant complexities is compositional asymmetry, key factor claimed to be associated to functional and structural roles. Nonetheless, membranes asymmetry is often hard to be reproduced in mimics. Experimental models, bearing forced membrane leaflets asymmetry in the form of dispersed...

518. Harnessing the power of neutron to quantify softness

Andrea Scotti (Institute of Physical Chemistry - RWTH Aachen University)

21/03/2023, 09:00

Soft Condensed Matter

Plenary (only invited by ECNS team!)

Although softness is a concept used in everyday life, its precise quantification is still far to be achieved. This is a fundamental step to build bridges between model systems which are largely studied and bio-relevant materials. The softness of a building block in solution plays a key role in determining the macroscopic properties of the material, such as viscosity or apparent yield stress....

531. New structures and exotic properties of simple molecular systems under extreme conditions: using neutrons to explore planetary interiors

Prof. Livia Eleonora Bove (CNRS UMR7590 & EPFL)

20/03/2023, 09:45

Planetary Sciences and Extreme Conditions

Plenary (only invited by ECNS team!)

Simple molecular systems, like water, methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and their mixtures are of para-mount importance for many fields, ranging from energy storage applications to condensed matter and planetary physics [1-2]. These systems are widespread on Earth, in various planetary bodies in the solar system and in newly detected water-rich exoplanets, and constitute an incredibly rich gas...

517. Spin-orbit excitons in transition metal oxides

Dr Chris Stock (University of Edinburgh)

23/03/2023, 09:00

Magnetism, Superconductivity, Topological Systems, Magnetic Thin Films an other electronic phenomena

Plenary (only invited by ECNS team!)

Transition metal ion compounds that have an orbital degree of freedom have recently been the focus of much attention owing to the importance that spin-orbit coupling plays in the creation of new phases and excitations. We will outline a series of scattering studies illustrating the role that neutrons have in characterizing spin-orbit physics in transition metal compounds. Particular focus...

516. Ultracold Neutrons as powerful probes in particle physics and cosmology

Tobias JENKE (Institut Laue-Langevin)

22/03/2023, 09:45

Fundamental Science

Plenary (only invited by ECNS team!)

Experiments with very slow – so-called ultracold – neutrons are a powerful probe of models of the early universe at the precision frontier. Flagship experiments with ultra-cold neutrons measure the lifetime of the free neutron and search for its electric dipole moment.
Ultracold neutrons are as well excellent objects to test gravity at short distances, as they are electrically neutral, only...

530. Vortices in unconventional superconductors

Elizabeth Blackburn (Lund University)

22/03/2023, 09:00

Magnetism, Superconductivity, Topological Systems, Magnetic Thin Films an other electronic phenomena

Plenary (only invited by ECNS team!)

Over thirty years ago, the high-temperature cuprate superconductors were discovered, and although many of the phenomenological tools developed to describe superconductivity could still be applied, the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory for superconductors was found not to work. It became clear that a Cooper pair of electrons formed, but that the superconducting energy gap had become more...