Polarized neutron imaging: A spin-echo approach

Ströbl, Markus; Pappas, C.; Hilger, André; Wellert, Stefan; Kardjilov, Nikolay; Seidel, Sophie; Manke, Ingo

doi:10.1016/j.physb.2010.10.029

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“…Neutrons are highly sensitive to magnetic fields due to their intrinsic magnetic moment. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] The information yield by neutrons and X-rays is thus complementary as neutrons are relatively insensitive to most metals, but can be used to detect small amounts of many light elements, including hydrogen, boron, and lithium. These properties make neutrons ideal for applications in a wide range of scientific and industrial applications.…”

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Investigation of Energy‐Relevant Materials with Synchrotron X‐Rays and Neutrons

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Many materials used for energy conversion have a complex structure and chemical composition, knowledge of which is important for both understanding the function of materials and energy conversion systems and for their further development. Synchrotron radiation and neutrons can make an important contribution to understanding the function of such systems. Taking examples from the fields of fuel cells, gas separation membranes, batteries, solar cells, and catalysts, the use of radiography, tomography, diffraction, scattering, and absorption edge spectroscopy is demonstrated. The strength of such methods is the in situ characterization of processes and compositions, and so the focus is on these aspects.

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confidence: 99%

Investigation of Energy‐Relevant Materials with Synchrotron X‐Rays and Neutrons

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“…Thus, for a monochromatic beam, variations in the total precession angle for a given path through a magnetic field are indicative of the distribution of the field along that path [7,8]. These variations can be measured using a polarized beam, i.e., one in which all neutrons of one of the two possible spin-states have been removed from the beam.…”

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Imaging with Polarized Neutrons

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Owing to their zero charge, neutrons are able to pass through thick layers of matter (typically several centimeters) while being sensitive to magnetic fields due to their intrinsic magnetic moment. Therefore, in addition to the conventional attenuation contrast image, the magnetic field inside and around a sample can be visualized by detecting changes of polarization in a transmitted beam. The method is based on the spatially resolved measurement of the cumulative precession angles of a collimated, polarized, monochromatic neutron beam that traverses a magnetic field or sample.

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“…The unique ability of neutrons to penetrate materials opaque to other types of radiation, combined with their ability to interact with a magnetic field through the neutron spin precession, makes neutrons an excellent probe for remotely studying magnetic field distributions, even internally within solid objects. Various techniques utilizing polarized neutrons have been developed for the spatially resolved investigation of magnetic fields [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. One of these techniques correlates the variation of neutron intensity with the magnetic field strength and direction, allowing effective magnetic field imaging [2,3,[5][6][7][8][9][10].…”

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“…One of these techniques correlates the variation of neutron intensity with the magnetic field strength and direction, allowing effective magnetic field imaging [2,3,[5][6][7][8][9][10]. Also interferometric and diffraction methods have been available for a number of years, where the dependence of the real part of the refractive index on the magnetic field strength can be exploited [1,4,11,12] including methods utilizing spin echo [13,14]. However the latter techniques operate with neutron beams of low intensity caused by all the necessary beam conditioning, and further, some of them require spatial scanning through the sample, and therefore provide very limited imaging statistics, but with the tradeoff of providing very good spatial resolution.…”

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confidence: 99%