Campillo, E.; Bartkowiak, M.; Prokhnenko, O.; Smeibidl, P.; Forgan, E.M.; Blackburn, E.: Analysis of time-of-flight small-angle neutron scattering data on mesoscopic crystals such as magnetic vortex lattices. Journal of Applied Crystallography 55 (2022), p. 1314–1323
10.1107/s1600576722008226
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Abstract:
Bragg diffracted intensities and q values for crystalline structures with long repeat distances may be obtained by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) investigations. An account is given of the methods, advantages and disadvantages of obtaining such data by the multichromatic time-of-flight method, compared with the more traditional quasi-monochromatic SANS method. This is illustrated with data obtained from high-magnetic-field measurements on magnetic vortex line lattices in superconductors on the former HFM/EXED instrument at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. The methods have application to other mesoscopic crystalline structures investigated by SANS instruments at pulsed sources.