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Development of the methods for simulating the neutron spectrometers and neutron-scattering experiments

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Reviewed are the results of simulating the neutron scattering instruments with the program package VITESS upgraded by the routines for treating the polarized neutrons, as developed by the authors. The reported investigations have been carried out at the Frank Laboratory for Neutron Physics at JINR in collaboration with the Juelich research center (Germany). The performance of the resonance and gradient adiabatic spin flippers, the Drabkin resonator, the classical and resonance spin-echo spectrometers, the spin-echo diffractometer for the small-angle neutron scattering, and the spin-echo spectrometer with rotating magnetic fields is successfully modeled. The methods for using the 3D map of the magnetic field from the input file, either mapped experimentally or computed using the finite-elements technique, in the VITESS computer code, are considered in detail. The results of neutron-polarimetry experiments are adequately reproduced by our simulations.

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  1. Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, ul. Joliot-Curie 6, Dubna, Moscow Region, 141980, Russia

    S. A. Manoshin & A. V. Belushkin

  2. Juelich Center for Neutron Science at MLZ, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Lichtenbergstrasse 1, Garching, 85747, Germany

    A. I. Ioffe

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Original Russian Text © S.A. Manoshin, A.V. Belushkin, A.I. Ioffe, 2016, published in Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2016, Vol. 47, No. 4.

Review paper for the JINR-2015 Jubilee Issue of Physics of Particles and Nuclei.

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Manoshin, S.A., Belushkin, A.V. & Ioffe, A.I. Development of the methods for simulating the neutron spectrometers and neutron-scattering experiments. Phys. Part. Nuclei 47, 667–680 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779616040109

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