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Title: The suite of small-angle neutron scattering instruments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory is home to the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), a high-flux research reactor, and the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the world's most intense source of pulsed neutron beams. The unique co-localization of these two sources provided an opportunity to develop a suite of complementary small-angle neutron scattering instruments for studies of large-scale structures: the GP-SANS and Bio-SANS instruments at the HFIR and the EQ-SANS and TOF-USANS instruments at the SNS. This article provides an overview of the capabilities of the suite of instruments, with specific emphasis on how they complement each other. As a result, a description of the plans for future developments including greater integration of the suite into a single point of entry for neutron scattering studies of large-scale structures is also provided.

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  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1435304
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online); Journal Volume: 51; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1600-5767
Publisher:
International Union of Crystallography
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; small-angle neutron scattering; scientific user facilities; ultra-small-angle neutron scattering; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; ORNL

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Heller, William T., Cuneo, Matthew J., Debeer-Schmitt, Lisa M., Do, Changwoo, He, Lilin, Heroux, Luke, Littrell, Kenneth, Pingali, Sai Venkatesh, Qian, Shuo, Stanley, Christopher, Urban, Volker S., Wu, Bin, and Bras, Wim. The suite of small-angle neutron scattering instruments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1107/S1600576718001231.
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Heller, William T., Cuneo, Matthew J., Debeer-Schmitt, Lisa M., Do, Changwoo, He, Lilin, Heroux, Luke, Littrell, Kenneth, Pingali, Sai Venkatesh, Qian, Shuo, Stanley, Christopher, Urban, Volker S., Wu, Bin, & Bras, Wim. The suite of small-angle neutron scattering instruments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. United States. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576718001231
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Heller, William T., Cuneo, Matthew J., Debeer-Schmitt, Lisa M., Do, Changwoo, He, Lilin, Heroux, Luke, Littrell, Kenneth, Pingali, Sai Venkatesh, Qian, Shuo, Stanley, Christopher, Urban, Volker S., Wu, Bin, and Bras, Wim. Wed . "The suite of small-angle neutron scattering instruments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory". United States. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576718001231. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1435304.
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@article{osti_1435304,
title = {The suite of small-angle neutron scattering instruments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory},
author = {Heller, William T. and Cuneo, Matthew J. and Debeer-Schmitt, Lisa M. and Do, Changwoo and He, Lilin and Heroux, Luke and Littrell, Kenneth and Pingali, Sai Venkatesh and Qian, Shuo and Stanley, Christopher and Urban, Volker S. and Wu, Bin and Bras, Wim},
abstractNote = {Oak Ridge National Laboratory is home to the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), a high-flux research reactor, and the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the world's most intense source of pulsed neutron beams. The unique co-localization of these two sources provided an opportunity to develop a suite of complementary small-angle neutron scattering instruments for studies of large-scale structures: the GP-SANS and Bio-SANS instruments at the HFIR and the EQ-SANS and TOF-USANS instruments at the SNS. This article provides an overview of the capabilities of the suite of instruments, with specific emphasis on how they complement each other. As a result, a description of the plans for future developments including greater integration of the suite into a single point of entry for neutron scattering studies of large-scale structures is also provided.},
doi = {10.1107/S1600576718001231},
journal = {Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online)},
number = 2,
volume = 51,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {2}
}
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