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High energy resolution neutron spin-echo spectroscopy has been used to measure intrinsic width of diffuse scattering discovered earlier in relaxor ferroelectric crystals. The anisotropic and transverse components of the scattering have been…
The sol-gel silica glasses doped with copper selenide nanoparticles were studied through small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and transmission electron microscopy. SANS intensities demonstrate the complicated dependence on the scattering…
We present a novel dynamic light scattering setup to probe, with time and space resolution, the microscopic dynamics of soft matter systems confined within millimeter-sized spherical drops. By using an ad-hoc optical layout, we tackle the…
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FLAC is a program to calculate the small-angle neutron scattering intensity of highly packed polydisperse systems of neutral or charged hard spheres within the Percus-Yevick and the Mean Spherical Approximation closures, respectively. The…
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A new method for the determination of the real part of the elastic scattering amplitude is examined for high energy proton-proton and proton-nuclei elastic scattering at small momentum transfer. This method allows to decrease the number of…
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