Published November 3, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Molecular dynamics in DTGS (ND3) by quasielastic and inelastic neutron scattering

  • 1. National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, P.O. Box MG 6, 76900 Bucharest (Romania)
  • 2. Berlin Neutron Scattering Center, Hahn-Meitner-Institut, 14109 Berlin (Germany)

Description

The paper presents the last of our QENS and INS measurements on triglycine sulphate DTGS (ND3) at NEAT - BENSC neutron spectrometer. Using an energy window of 0.093 meV we have completed the information obtained in our previous measurements that were carried on non-deuterated TGS. By replacing the protons from amino groups of TGS with deuterons we have been able to observe the dynamical changes in the QENS pattern. The quasielastic line broadening in this case is mainly due to the flip jump diffusion motion of the protons which belong to CH2 group of the GI glycine molecule in DTGS. The residence time associated to this motion is about 4.2 ps. The second part of the paper is devoted to lattice phonons and internal molecular normal modes. The peaks observed in the generalized density of states were compared with optical spectroscopy data. The agreement is good

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemphys.2008.07.019

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.chemphys.2008.07.019;
PII
S0301-0104(08)00398-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chemical Physics
Journal Volume
353
Journal Issue
1-3
Journal Page Range
p. 59-65
ISSN
0301-0104
CODEN
CMPHC2

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