We have been developing Drabkin energy filters for pulse shaping at the J-PARCneutron source.Drabkin energy filter could reduce pulse width without losingwide-bandwidth and also be used as a fast chopper for pulsed neutrons.In this article, simulations on wide-band pulse shaping mode and chopper-mode for J-PARCmoderators are presented along with experimental results on our proto-type Drabkinfilters.
We carried out neutron spin echo (NSE) and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments on a ternary microemulsion involving an ionic surfactant AOT, water, anddecane. Thermal fluctuations of the AOT monolayers have been investigated as afunction of temperature and pressure. The monolayers become more flexible withincreasing temperature, while they become more rigid with increasing pressure. Theseresults are consistent with the microscopic pictures that the head-head repulsion of the AOT molecules is enhanced at high temperature, while an attractive interaction betweenthe hydrophobic tails of the AOT molecules increases at high pressure.
2-Dimensional wide-angle neutron diffraction patterns have been measured successfullyfor the uniaxially-oriented samples of fully-deuterated and fully-hydrogeneouspolyethylene by using BIX-3 imaging plate system installed at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute.These data were analyzed in detail and the calculation of Fouriermaps allowed us to extract the positions of hydrogen atoms in the crystal latticeaccurately.The structural parameters obtained after refinement were compared withthose derived from the X-ray and electron diffraction experiments as well as thecomputer simulation result. The accurate determination of hydrogen atomic position byneutron technique makes it possible to perform the exact prediction of physicalproperties of polymer crystals in a quantitative manner.