Obedience to authority : an experimental view

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Current Status of Neutron-Scattering Research and Facilities in the United States Copyright PREFACE Contents 1. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS CONCLUSIONS RECOMMENDATIONS 2. INTRODUCTION 3. CURRENT STATUS OF NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES FACILITY DESCRIPTIONS High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR)--Brookhaven National Laboratory Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS)--Argonne National Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (MITR) National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR) Oak Ridge National Laboratory Reactors (ORNL) University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) Weapons Neutron Research/Proton Storage Ring Facility (WNR/PSR) Los Alamos National Laboratory Summary of Facilities THE USER COMMUNITY COMPARISON WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY 4. OVERSEAS NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES RESEARCH REACTORS PULSED NEUTRON SOURCES 5. RECENT NEUTRON-SCATTERING RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES; COMPARISONS WITH EUROPE CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS Magnetic Systems Phase Transition New Materials and Phenomena Crystal Dynamics Defect Systems Surfaces and Overlayers Liquids and Glasses Quantum Fluids Classical Liquids Glasses and Amorphous Solids NEUTRON OPTICS CHEMISTRY Crystallographic Research Hydrides, Organometallic Compounds, and Heteropoly Complexes Ionic Conductors and Ceramics Superconductors Framework Structures Charge-Density Studies Hydrogen-Bonded Compounds High-Precision Structure Studies Molecular Fluids and Molten Salts Chemical Spectroscopy Vibrational Spectroscopy Low-Energy Spectroscopy BIOLOGY Protein Crystallography Solution Scattering The Ribosome Partially Ordered Systems Inelastic Scattering Conclusion POLYMER AND COLLOID SCIENCE Areas of Special Interest Some Results from Neutron Scattering Instrumentation Needs MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Studies of Microstructural Changes Produced by Temperature and Deformation Use of SANS in the Detection and Analysis of Damage Measurement of Texture and Residual Stresses by Neutron Diffraction Investigations of Phase Decomposition 6. FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES: FACILITIES AND RESEARCH CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS CHEMISTRY BIOLOGY POLYMERS MATERIALS SCIENCE NEUTRON OPTICS Role of Pulsed Sources Concluding Remarks APPENDIX A INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS OF USERS OF MAJOR NEUTRON-SCATTERING FACILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES (JULY 1982-JUNE 1983) UNIVERSITIES INDUSTRIES