Abstract
It is great pleasure that the first pulsed neutron beam will be delivered to Materials and Life Science Facility in J-PARC on May, 2008. In the last quarter of a century, synchrotron radiation has opened new scientific windows of mineralogy, especially a field of mineral physics at high pressure. In the next several 10 years, we believe that the newly dedicated pulsed neutron source facility in J-PARC will provide us many opportunities to explore the next new world of mineralogy. In this paper we will give a brief overview of mineral sciences by neutron scattering and introduce our research project about the water-mineral interaction in the Earth by using the pulsed neutron source.
