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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…
Small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering, neutron backscattering and neutron time-of-flight spectroscopy are applied to reveal the structure of the ligand shell, the temperature-dependent diffusion properties and the phonon spectrum of PbS…
Small-angle scattering (SAS) of X-rays, neutrons or light from ensembles of randomly oriented and placed deterministic fractal structures are studied theoretically. In the standard analysis, a very few parameters can be determined from SAS…
A method is given for finding small inhomogeneities from surface scattering data. The method consists in localization of the positions and finding the intensities of these small inhomogeneities. The case of acoustic wave scattering is…
There is still a gap in understanding phonons scattering by geometrical defects at the nanoscale, and it remains a significant challenge for heat transfer management in nanoscale devices and systems. In this study, we aim to explore the…
In this work, we study the light scattering properties of dust aggregates ($0.7\mu m \lesssim R_c \lesssim 2.0\mu m$) having a wide range of porosity ($\mathcal{P}$ = 0.59 to 0.98). The simulations are executed using the Superposition…
Large liquid xenon detectors aiming for dark matter direct detection will soon become viable tools also for investigating neutrino physics. Information on the effects of nuclear structure in neutrino-nucleus scattering can be important in…
In the quest to image the three-dimensional magnetization structure we show that the technique of magnetic small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is highly sensitive to the details of the internal spin structure of nanoparticles. By…
Neutrino-nucleus coherent elastic scattering provides a theoretically appealing way to measure the neutron part of nuclear form factors. Using an expansion of form factors into moments, we show that neutrinos from stopped pions can probe…
Nonuniform neutron-rich matter present in both core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star crusts is described in terms of a semiclassical model that reproduces nuclear-matter properties and includes long-range Coulomb interactions. The…
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We examine manifestations of neutron electromagnetic polarizabilities in coherent Compton scattering from the Helium-3 nucleus. We calculate $\gamma ^3$He elastic scattering observables using chiral perturbation theory to next-to-leading…
We study the influence of mutual interaction on the conformation of flexible poly(propyleneamine) dendrimers of fourth generation in concentrated solution. Mixtures of dendrimers with protonated and deuterated end groups are investigated by…
Neutrino scattering on atomic systems at low-energy transfer is a powerful tool for searching the neutrino electromagnetic interactions. The regime of coherent elastic neutrino-atom scattering, i.e., when the atom recoils as a pointlike…
We report on the electrostatic complexation between oppositely charged polymers and inorganic nanoparticles investigated by static and dynamical light scattering. The nanoparticles put under scrutiny were citrate-coated nanocrystals of…
This study introduces silicon substrates with a switchable magnetic contrast layer (MCL) for polarised neutron reflectometry experiments (PNR) at solid/liquid interface to study soft matter surface layers. The advantage with neutron…
Among the different dynamical processes that take place in polymers, methyl group rotation is perhaps the simplest one, since all the relevant interactions on the methyl group can be condensed in an effective mean-field one-dimensional…
Simple and fast analytic method to find out optimal combinations of sizes of neutron moderator and optical system entrance, allowing for the full sample illumination with minimum to none background, is developed. In the case of employing…
Compton scattering on light nuclei ($A=2,3$) has emerged as an effective avenue to search for signatures of neutron polarizabilities, both spin--independent and spin--dependent ones. In this discussion I will focus on the theoretical aspect…
The understanding of dynamics and functioning of biological membranes and in particular of membrane embedded proteins is one of the most fundamental problems and challenges in modern biology and biophysics. In particular the impact of…