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An key element of the success of McStas is the component layer where users and developers alike are contributing to the description of new physical models and features. In McStas, components realise all physical elements of the simulated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-21 P. K. Willendrup , K. Lefmann

We demonstrate a strategy for simulating wide-range X-ray scattering patterns, which spans the small- and wide scattering angles as well as the scattering angles typically used for Pair Distribution Function (PDF) analysis. Such simulated…

Complete Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of a neutrino experiment typically involves the lengthy and CPU-intensive process of integrating models of incoming neutrino fluxes, event generation, and detector setup. We describe a fast,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-13 Ishaan Vohra

We investigate ways of accurately simulating the propagation of energetic charged particles over small times where the standard Monte Carlo approximation to diffusive transport breaks down. We find that a small-angle scattering procedure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Protheroe , A. Meli , A. -C Donea

Measurements of a well-characterised standard sample can verify the performance of an instrument. Typically, small-angle neutron scattering instruments are used to investigate a wide range of samples and may often be used in a number of…

We study electromagnetic form factors of protons in proton-nucleus scattering via analysing of experimental cross-sections of accompanying bremsstrahlung photons. A new bremsstrahlung model for proton-nucleus scattering is developed, where…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-22 Sergei P. Maydanyuk , Li-Ping Zou , Peng-Ming Zhang

Cross sections from low-energy neutron-nucleus scattering have been evaluated using a coupled channel theory of scattering. Both a coordinate-space and a momentum-space formalism of that coupled-channel theory are considered.A simple…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Amos , S. Karataglidis , D. van der Knijff , L. Canton , G. Pisent , J. P. Svenne

Ultracold neutrons (UCN) with kinetic energies up to 300 neV can be stored in material or magnetic confinements for hundreds of seconds. This makes them a very useful tool for probing fundamental symmetries of nature, by searching for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 N. J. Ayres , E. Chanel , B. Clement , P. G. Harris , R. Picker , G. Pignol , W. Schreyer , G. Zsigmond

Neutron-rich matter at subnuclear densities may involve complex structures displaying a variety of shapes, such as spherical, slablike, and/or rodlike shapes. These phases of the {\it nuclear pasta} are expected to exist in the crust of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. J. Horowitz , M. A. Perez-Garcia , J. Piekarewicz

McSAS3 is the refactored successor to the original McSAS Monte Carlo small-angle scattering analysis software. It is intended to be integrated in automated data processing pipelines, but can also be used to process individual (batches of)…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-01-27 Brian Richard Pauw , Ingo Breßler

Quantum materials research requires co-design of theory with experiments and involves demanding simulations and the analysis of vast quantities of data, usually including pattern recognition and clustering. Artificial intelligence is a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-01 A. M. Samarakoon , D. Alan Tennant , Feng Ye , Qiang Zhang , S. A. Grigera

We present an analysis of elastic and quasielastic parity-violating (PV) electron scattering processes. These reactions can help to constrain the weak neutral current form factors of the nucleon that play an essential role in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-27 R. González-Jiménez , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly

Small-angle scattering (SAS) is a key experimental technique for analyzing nano-scale structures in various materials.In SAS data analysis, selecting an appropriate mathematical model for the scattering intensity is critical, as it…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-01-22 Yui Hayashi , Shun Katakami , Shigeo Kuwamoto , Kenji Nagata , Masaichiro Mizumaki , Masato Okada

Microscopic calculations of neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections are critical for the success of the neutrino-oscillation program. In addition to retaining nuclear correlations in the initial and final state of the reaction, they are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-25 Alexis Nikolakopoulos , Alessandro Lovato , Noemi Rocco

Differential cross sections and analyzing powers for elastic scattering from, and for inelastic proton scattering to a set of $2^+_1$ states in, ${}^{12}$C, ${}^{20}$Ne, ${}^{24}$Mg, ${}^{28}$Si and ${}^{40}$Ca, and for a set of energies…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. J. Kim , K. Amos , S. Karataglidis , W. A. Richter

This study outlines a numerical methodology aimed at rectifying the neutron scattering cross-sections of fundamental elements across a range of low neutron energies typically employed in general neutron scattering experiments. By using the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-09-28 Karrie E. An , Guan-Rong Huang , Changwoo Do , Wei-Ren Chen

Magnetic neutron scattering measures spin-spin correlations giving information about the long-range spin order as well as the shape of the spin density in magnetic materials. Similarly, detailed first principles calculations directly…

Monte Carlo simulations of neutron-rich matter of relevance to the inner neutron-star crust are performed for a system of A=5,000 nucleons. To determine the proton fraction in the inner crust, numerical simulations are carried out for a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Piekarewicz , G. Toledo Sanchez

As a simple cubic system with only one f electron per cerium ion, CeB6 is of model character to investigate the interplay of orbital phenomena with magnetism. It is also a textbook example of a compound that exhibits magnetically hidden…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-13 P. Y. Portnichenko , A. S. Cameron , D. S. Inosov

Inelastic neutron scattering has been used to determine the microscopic Hamiltonian describing two high-spin variants of the high-anisotropy Mn$_6$ nanomagnet. The energy spectrum of both systems is characterized by the presence of several…