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High resolution total and indium differential atomic pair distribution functions (PDFs) for In_(0.5)Ga_(0.5)As alloys have been obtained by high energy and anomalous x-ray diffraction experiments, respectively. The first peak in the total…
We present here a real-time analysis of diffraction images acquired at high frame-rate (925 Hz) and its application to macromolecular serial crystallography. The software uses a new signal separation algorithm, able to distinguish the…
We present a pair distribution function (PDF) analysis from neutron diffraction data of the Ni$_{1-x}$V$_x$ alloy in the Ni-rich regime. Such structural study aims to clarify the origin of the magnetic inhomogeneities associated with the…
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…
We describe the quantitative refinement of nanoparticle structures from gold nanoparticles probed by ultrafast electron crystallography (UEC). We establish the equivalence between the modified radial distribution function employed in UEC…
We present a method for predicting the space group of a structure given a calculated or measured atomic pair distribution function (PDF) from that structure. The method utilizes machine learning models trained on more than 100,000 PDFs…
We show that the structure factor $S(q)$ of water can be obtained from X-ray synchrotron experiments at grazing angle of incidence (in reflection mode) by using a liquid surface diffractometer. The corrections used to obtain $S(q)$…
This paper explores the development and testing of a simple absorption correction model for processing x-ray powder diffraction data from Debye-Scherrer geometry laboratory x-ray experiments. This may be used as a pre-processing step before…
Here we show explicitly the relationship between the functions used in the atomic pair distribution function (PDF) method and those commonly used in small angle scattering (SAS) analyses. The origin of the sloping baseline, $-4\pi r\rho_0$,…
Understanding nuclear effects in parton distribution functions (PDF) is an essential component needed to determine the strange and anti-strange quark contributions in the proton. In addition Nuclear Parton Distribution Functions (NPDF) are…
We have systematically studied the optimal real-space sampling of atomic pair distribution data by comparing refinement results from oversampled and resampled data. Based on nickel and a complex perovskite system, we demonstrate that the…
The parton distributions functions (PDFs) derived from the NNLO QCD analysis of existing light-targets deep-inelastic-scattering data are presented. The NLO and NNLO PDFs are compared in order to analyze perturbative stability of the…
Study of parton distribution functions (PDFs) has led to a finer cognisance of the structure of partons in hadrons and the proton structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS). PDFs are instrumental in predicting results for most…
The availability of neutron spallation-source instruments that provide total scattering powder diffraction has led to an increased application of real-space structure analysis using the pair distribution function. Currently, the analytical…
We present NNPDF3.0, the first set of parton distribution functions (PDFs) determined with a methodology validated by a closure test. NNPDF3.0 uses a global dataset including HERA-II deep-inelastic inclusive cross-sections, the combined…
A new and simple statistical approach is performed to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon in terms of light-front kinematic variables. We do not put in any extra arbitrary parameter or corrected term by hand,…
Systematic local structural studies of Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Fe$_2$As$_2$ system are undertaken at room temperature using atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis. The local structure of the Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Fe$_2$As$_2$ is found to be well…
The finite size effects of the nanoparticles to the atomic pair distribution functions (PDF) are discussed by calculating the radial distribution functions (RDF) on nanoparticles with various shapes, such as sheet, belt, rod, tube and…
SUePDF is a graphic-user-interface program written in MATLAB to achieve quantitative pair distribution functions (PDF) from electron diffraction data. The program facilitates the structural studies of amorphous materials and small…
We report the first example of magnetic pair distribution function (mPDF) data obtained through use of neutron polarization analysis. Using the antiferromagnetic semiconductor MnTe as a test case, we present high-quality mPDF data collected…