Published June 11, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Cold and thermal neutron scattering in liquid water-II: Scattering laws and group constants for H2O and D2O

  • 1. Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501 (Japan)

Description

On the basis of the cross-section model of liquid H2O, which has been developed in the previous paper, cold and thermal neutron scattering in liquid D2O is described. The dynamics of liquid molecules, together with their static distribution, is fully taken into account so that various results of neutron experiments and computer simulations are well reproduced especially in terms of coherent scattering like the diffuse Bragg one. The model covers a wide range of neutron incident energies from 0.1μeV to 10eV at many different temperatures between 0 and 100-bar C. Double-differential and total scattering cross sections are calculated by the use of a generalized frequency distribution and, equivalently, a velocity auto-correlation function. Furthermore, a set of scattering laws and group constants for liquid H2O and D2O is generated, which will be useful for research and development of an advanced neutron source and a nuclear power reactor

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2005.01.302;
PII
S0168-9002(05)00494-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
545
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 309-318
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

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Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.