A neutron resonance spin echo spectrometer for quasi-elastic and inelastic scattering

Abstract

We propose a modified neutron spin echo (NSE) spectrometer using high frequency spin flippers to replace the static spin flipper and the long magnetic precession field in each arm of the classicalspin echo setup. The spectrometer is suitable for quasi-elastic as well as inelastic scattering and can work with an arbitrary magnetic field on the sample. The restrictions on sample size and scattering angle can be relaxed, in comparison with the classical NSE method.