SPHERES, Jülichs high-flux neutron backscattering spectrometer at FRM II

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Wuttke, Joachim ^a   Budwig, Alfred ^a   Drochner, Matthias ^a   Kämmerling, Hans ^a   Kayser, Franz Joseph ^a   Kleines, Harald ^a   Ossovyi, Vladimir ^a   Pardo, Luis Carlos ^a,b   Prager, Michael ^a   Richter, Dieter ^a   Schneider, Gerald J ^a   Schneider, Harald ^a   Staringer, Simon ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; NEUTRON BACKSCATTERING; NEUTRON SCIENCE; THIRD GENERATION;

BACKSCATTERING; NEUTRON SOURCES; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 84863466250     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4732806     Document Type: Review

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