Global optimization of an entire neutron guide hall

Journal of Applied Crystallography

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 483-488

  Bentley, Phil M ^a,b   Fouquet, Peter ^a   Böhm, Martin ^a   Sutton, Iain ^a   Dewhurst, Charles D ^a   Andersen, Ken H ^a  

^a INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

instrument optimization; neutron acceptance diagram shading (NADS); neutron data acquisition; neutron guide systems; particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

BEAM-LINES; COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; COMPUTER GAME; CPU TIME; DESKTOP COMPUTER; FIGURES OF MERITS; GEOMETRY PARAMETER; NEUTRON DATA ACQUISITION; NEUTRON GUIDES; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PHASE SPACES; SAMPLE POSITION; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 79956308106     PISSN: 00218898     EISSN: 16005767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1107/S0021889811013124     Document Type: Article

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