Disk chopper time-of-flight spectrometer

IN5B is a high precision direct geometry Time-of-flight (ToF) spectrometer. It is used to study low-energy transfer processes as a function of momentum transfer.

Typically this instrument is used for measurements in the small energy and momentum transfer region with values of about 1 % for the energy resolution (e.g. quasi-elastic scattering in solids, liquids, molecular crystals and inelastic scattering with small energy transfers in the range 10 µeV - 100 meV).

Applications

Local and long-range diffusion in disordered systems such as liquids, molecular crystals, amorphous solids (superionic glasses, orientational glasses, spin glasses), polymers, hydrogen-metal systems, ionic conductors
Dynamics of ’soft matter’, including gels, proteins and biological membranes
Dynamics of quantum liquids
Rotational tunnelling in molecular crystals
Crystal field splitting
Spin dynamics in high-TC superconductors
Critical scattering phenomena in dense gases and solids

Instrument layout

This shows how the 6 choppers are distributed in the primary spectrometer and how the huge detector bench is designed.