Neutron triple-axis spectrometry

History

The triple-axis spectrometry method was first developed by Bertram Brockhouse at the National Research Experimental NRX reactor at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada. The first results from the prototype triple-axis spectrometer were published in January 1955 and the first true triple-axis spectrometer was built in 1956. Bertram Brockhouse shared the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physics for this development, which allowed elementary excitations, such as phonons and magnons, to be observed directly. The Nobel citation was "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter" and "for the development of neutron spectroscopy".

TAS instruments in current use

FRM-II Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz

Main article: FRM-II

• PANDA – a cold neutron triple-axis spectrometer.
• PUMA – a thermal neutron triple-axis spectrometer with multianalyser-detector option.
• TRISP – a thermal neutron triple-axis spin echo spectrometer.
• KOMPASS – a cold triple-axis spectrometer with polarization analysis
• MIRA – a cold triple-axis spectrometer

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

Main article: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

• FLEX – a cold neutron triple-axis spectrometer with optional neutron resonance spin echo mode.{{cite web|url=http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/pubbin/igama_output?modus=einzel&sprache=en&gid=1710&typoid=8542|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116142053/http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/pubbin/igama_output?modus=einzel&sprache=en&gid=1710&typoid=8542|archive-date=2016-01-16|title= Cold Neutron 3-Axis Spectrometer (FLEXX) |url-status=dead}}
• E1 – a thermal neutron triple-axis spectrometer with polarization analysis.

Paul Scherrer Institut

Main article: Paul Scherrer Institut

• RITA-II – a cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer.
• TASP – a cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer with polarization analysis and neutron spherical polarimetry.
• EIGER – a thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer.

Institut Laue-Langevin

Main article: Institut Laue-Langevin

• IN1 – a hot-neutron triple-axis spectrometer.
• IN3 – a thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer for tests.
• IN8 – a high-flux thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer.
• IN12 – a cold neutron triple-axis spectrometer.
• IN14 – a cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer with polarized neutron capability.
• IN20 – a thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer with polarized neutron capability.
• IN22 – a thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer with polarized neutron capability.
• D10 – a thermal-neutron four-circle diffractometer with a triple-axis energy analysis option.

CEA/Saclay Laboratoire Léon Brillouin

Main article: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique

• 1T-1 – a double-focusing thermal neutron triple-axis spectrometer.
• 2T-1 – a thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer.
• 4F-1 – a cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer.
• 4F-2 – a cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer.

NIST Center for Neutron Research

Main article: NIST

• SPINS – a cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer with polarized neutron capability.
• BT-7 – a thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer with polarized neutron capability.
• MACS – a high-flux cold-neutron multi-axis spectrometer.

ORNL HFIR

Main article: ORNL, HFIR

• CTAX – a cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer.
• PTAX(HB1) – a thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer specifically designed for polarized neutron measurements.
• FIETAX (HB1A) – a fixed incident energy thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer.
• TAX (HB3) – a high-flux thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer.

ANSTO Bragg Institute

Main article: ANSTO

• TAIPAN – a thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer with polarized neutron capability and beryllium-filter option.
• SIKA – a cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer with polarized neutron capability.

MURR University of Missouri Research Reactor

• Triax – a thermal-neutron triple-axis spectrometer.

References

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