Educational Material

From the SFN collection, lectures and courses from the French-Swedish Winterschool on Neutron Scattering: Applications to Soft Matter
This volume is available here.

The first Baltic School on Application of Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation in Solid State Physics and Material Science has been held in Riga, Latvia, last October 4 2012. The book of abstracts is available here.

Lecture course 402-0543: Neutron Scattering in Condensed Matter Physics -I of ETH Zurich, by Prof. Dr. Andrey Zheludev. Here.

Fan du LLB is an annual school delivered in French and offering young French-speaking researchers a first contact with real experimental neutron scattering. The notes of the 2010 school can be found here (in French).

A two-week laboratory course in neutron scattering is conducted once a year by Forschungszentrum Jülich in cooperation with RWTH Aachen and WWU Münster University. The lecture notes from the course are freely available here.

The lecture notes of the 2012 IFF Spring School of Forschungszentrum Jülich provide a solid introduction to the basics of scattering methods, including but not limited to neutrons. Click here to find the lectures.

The whole training from the JDN18 is published in a volume of the “collection SFN” (EDP sciences) and can be downloaded for free here .

2014 NCNR/NSF Summer School Course Materials

The twentieth annual Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) “Summer School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy”. The 2014’s summer school is devoted to methods and applications of small angle neutron scattering and neutron reflectometry. Course materials can be found here.

NMI3´s Education and Training Activities have as a mission to ensure the efficient use of Neutron and Muon facilities by European scientists. To this end, NMI3 financially supports neutron scattering and muon spectroscopy schools, organised by European facilities and research institutions. For more information on the schools supported click here.

Lecture notes, worksheets, practical worksheets and the course manual for the ISIS Neutron Training Course can be downloaded from here.

PaN-learning is a Photon and Neutron e-learning platform, which aims to bring free education and training to scientists and students.

Courses include the theory of photon an neutron scattering, along with how to use Python code for software for data reduction and modelling.

The Virtual Neutron Facility is a set of interoperable software packages that allow scientists to simulate neutron scattering experiments. Much like real experiments, vnf has two main parts: 1) instruments, which uses the subpackage MCViNE, and 2) samples, which uses the subpackages for scattering kernels based on modern methods from the theory of materials structure and dynamics. Read more.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron, one of the particles found in an atom’s nucleus. Building on the work of Ernest Rutherford, the British physicist James Chadwick won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. Neutrons play a fundamental role in the universe and their discovery was at the heart of developments in nuclear physics in the first half of the 20th century.

With Val Gibson (Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Trinity College), Andrew Harrison (CEO of Diamond Light Source and Professor in Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh), and Frank Close(Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Oxford).

Listen to it here .

The European Neutron Scattering Association (ECNS) has published a brochure on “Neutrons for science and technology”. The brochure highlights typical work from the academic and industrial user communities that has been chosen to illustrate the scope and potential of neutrons. Download here.

Neutron scattering can be applied to a range of scientific questions, spanning the realms of physics, chemistry, geology, biology and medicine. With a neutron tool kit, we can probe the structure and dynamics of materials over a wide range of length- and time-scales. On these pages, you will find specific perspectives for neutron science and how important science topics will be addressed by ESS.

The multimedia encyclopaedia Exploring matter with neutrons was published in English and French in 2004/2005 in the form of a CD-ROM. It is now in the public domain and free of charge. This encyclopaedia explains all about neutrons and the unique properties that make them so useful to science and industry. It provides an interactive description of the experimental instruments and techniques in use.

In this document, is demonstrated how to build and control LEGO models of neutron scattering instruments. A triple-axis, such as IN8, and a crystal time-of-flight spectrometer such a IN6 are considered. These may be used for training, exhibition (mock-up) purposes for instance on conferences and in universities.

Almost all of the major changes in our society, the dramatic revolutions in transport and manufacturing, the growth of computing and the internet and the steady increase in average life span, have their origin in understanding and exploiting the physics and chemistry of materials.
The information in this brochure is just a sample of the significant social and economic impact that neutron scattering science contributes to our lives.

Neutrons4Science offers a set of multiplatform and interactive 3D animations for the education. Enter the world of neutrons! They are a powerful and highly acclaimed tool not only for the study of condensed matter (the world we live in) but also for confirming our current understanding of physics. What’s more, you don’t even need to be a scientist to use Neutrons4Science. Just be curious!

Neutron scattering has emerged as a mainstream scientific endeavour over the last 20–30 years. Having previously been the preserve of researchers studying superconductivity and magnetism, neutron scattering is now opening up new areas such as investigating archaeological artefacts or studying star formation. In this podcast Physics World news editor Michael Banks travels to the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source in Oxfordshire, UK, to find out how scientists are using neutrons in their research and how the lab is looking to attract more users from industry. Listen to the podcast here.

Do you want your non-scientist friends to understand what research with neutrons and muons is about? New popular brochure from the Paul Scherrer Institute now available in English, German and French. By science writer Martyn Bull.
https://www.psi.ch/info/MediaBoard/PSI_NeutronsMuons_e.pdf (English)
https://www.psi.ch/info/MediaBoard/PSI_Neutronen%20Myonen_d.pdf (German)
https://www.psi.ch/info/MediaBoard/PSI_NeutronsMuons_f.pdf (French)

To see all the PSI general brochures: https://www.psi.ch/media/information-material

To watch PSI’s short video animations that show what neutrons can see go to https://www.psi.ch/niag/movies .