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Title: EXPANSE: A time-of-flight EXPanded Angle Neutron Spin Echo spectrometer at the Second Target Station of the Spallation Neutron Source

Abstract

EXPANSE, an EXPanded Angle Neutron Spin Echo instrument, has been proposed and selected as one of the first suite of instruments to be built at the Second Target Station of the Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This instrument is designed to address scientific problems that involve high-energy resolution (neV– μeV) of dynamic processes in a wide range of materials. The wide-angle detector banks of EXPANSE provide coverage of nearly two orders of magnitude in scattering wavenumbers, and the wide wavelength band affords approximately four orders of magnitude in Fourier times. This instrument will offer unique capabilities that are not available in the currently existing neutron scattering instruments in the United States. Specifically, EXPANSE will enable direct measurements of slow dynamics in the time domain over wide Q-ranges simultaneously and will also enable time-resolved spectroscopic studies. The instrument is expected to contribute to a diverse range of science areas, including soft matter, polymers, biological materials, liquids and glasses, energy materials, unconventional magnets, and quantum materials.

Authors:
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  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
  3. Inst. Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble (France)
  4. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)
  5. Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
  6. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  7. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1883917
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; DMR-2010792
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Review of Scientific Instruments
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 93; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; New Science Opportunities at the Spallation Neutron Source Second Target Station; Spallation neutron source; Magnetic equipment; Neutron spin-echo; Neutron scattering; Soft matter; Spectroscopy; Condensed matter spectroscopy; Particle beams

Citation Formats

Do, Changwoo, Ashkar, Rana, Boone, Cristina, Chen, Wei-Ren, Ehlers, Georg, Falus, Peter, Faraone, Antonio, Gardner, Jason S., Graves, Van, Huegle, Thomas, Katsumata, Reika, Kent, Darian, Lin, Jiao Y. Y., McHargue, Bill, Olsen, Bradley, Wang, Yangyang, Wilson, Danielle, and Zhang, Yang. EXPANSE: A time-of-flight EXPanded Angle Neutron Spin Echo spectrometer at the Second Target Station of the Spallation Neutron Source. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1063/5.0089349.
Do, Changwoo, Ashkar, Rana, Boone, Cristina, Chen, Wei-Ren, Ehlers, Georg, Falus, Peter, Faraone, Antonio, Gardner, Jason S., Graves, Van, Huegle, Thomas, Katsumata, Reika, Kent, Darian, Lin, Jiao Y. Y., McHargue, Bill, Olsen, Bradley, Wang, Yangyang, Wilson, Danielle, & Zhang, Yang. EXPANSE: A time-of-flight EXPanded Angle Neutron Spin Echo spectrometer at the Second Target Station of the Spallation Neutron Source. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0089349
Do, Changwoo, Ashkar, Rana, Boone, Cristina, Chen, Wei-Ren, Ehlers, Georg, Falus, Peter, Faraone, Antonio, Gardner, Jason S., Graves, Van, Huegle, Thomas, Katsumata, Reika, Kent, Darian, Lin, Jiao Y. Y., McHargue, Bill, Olsen, Bradley, Wang, Yangyang, Wilson, Danielle, and Zhang, Yang. Mon . "EXPANSE: A time-of-flight EXPanded Angle Neutron Spin Echo spectrometer at the Second Target Station of the Spallation Neutron Source". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0089349. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1883917.
@article{osti_1883917,
title = {EXPANSE: A time-of-flight EXPanded Angle Neutron Spin Echo spectrometer at the Second Target Station of the Spallation Neutron Source},
author = {Do, Changwoo and Ashkar, Rana and Boone, Cristina and Chen, Wei-Ren and Ehlers, Georg and Falus, Peter and Faraone, Antonio and Gardner, Jason S. and Graves, Van and Huegle, Thomas and Katsumata, Reika and Kent, Darian and Lin, Jiao Y. Y. and McHargue, Bill and Olsen, Bradley and Wang, Yangyang and Wilson, Danielle and Zhang, Yang},
abstractNote = {EXPANSE, an EXPanded Angle Neutron Spin Echo instrument, has been proposed and selected as one of the first suite of instruments to be built at the Second Target Station of the Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This instrument is designed to address scientific problems that involve high-energy resolution (neV– μeV) of dynamic processes in a wide range of materials. The wide-angle detector banks of EXPANSE provide coverage of nearly two orders of magnitude in scattering wavenumbers, and the wide wavelength band affords approximately four orders of magnitude in Fourier times. This instrument will offer unique capabilities that are not available in the currently existing neutron scattering instruments in the United States. Specifically, EXPANSE will enable direct measurements of slow dynamics in the time domain over wide Q-ranges simultaneously and will also enable time-resolved spectroscopic studies. The instrument is expected to contribute to a diverse range of science areas, including soft matter, polymers, biological materials, liquids and glasses, energy materials, unconventional magnets, and quantum materials.},
doi = {10.1063/5.0089349},
journal = {Review of Scientific Instruments},
number = 7,
volume = 93,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Mon Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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