Elementary Scattering Theory for X-ray and Neutron users

• Main Author: Sivia, Deviderjit Singh
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Asia; Book Industry Communication; Chemistry; Condensed Matter Physics; Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics); Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics); Crystallography; dynamics of materials; European Union countries; Human rights; Materials / States of matter; Materials science; Mathematics & science; Mathematics and Science; Mechanical engineering & materials; Mechanical engineering and materials; neutron facilities; Neutrons; Physics; Relations; scattering experiments; structure of materials; synchrotron facilities; Technology, engineering, agriculture; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; thema EDItEUR; X-rays; neutron facilities; dynamics of materials; structure of materials; scattering experiments; synchrotron facilities
• ISBN: 0199228671; 9780199228676
• DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199228676.001.0001

The opportunities for doing scattering experiments at synchrotron and neutron facilities have grown rapidly in recent years and are set to continue to do so into the foreseeable future. This text provides a basic understanding of how these techniques enable the structure and dynamics of materials to be studied at the atomic and molecular level. Although mathematics cannot be avoided in a theoretical discussion, the aim has been to write a book that most scientists will still find approachable. To this end, the first two chapters are devoted to providing a tutorial background in the mathematics and physics that are implicitly assumed in other texts. Thereafter, the philosophy has been one of keeping things as simple as possible.