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Modules

Sl.No	Chapter Name	Assignments
1	Assignment 1: Basics of Neutron Scattering	Download
2	Assignment 2: Basics of Neutron Scattering	Download
3	Assignment 3: Inelastic	Download
4	Assignment 4: Neutron Reflectivity	Download
5	Assignment 5: SANS	Download
6	Assignment 6: Magnetic Neutron Scattering	Download

Sr.No	Chapter Name	Keywords
1	Lecture 1: Properties of neutron and its utilization for condensed matter	Nuclear Reactors,Thermal Neutron, Spallation Neutron Source, Neutron Scattering Length.
2	Lecture 2: Neutron Sources, Neutron transport, beam lines	Fermi Pseudo-potential, Fermi Golden Rule, Coherent Scattering Cross-section, Incoherent Scattering Cross-section.
3	Lecture 3: Neutron Sources, Neutron transport, beam lines	Coherent and Incoherent Scattering Cross-section, X-Ray Diffraction, Structure Factor, Form Factor.
4	Lecture 4: Basics of neutron scattering under Born Approximation, Correlation function, Scattering Law	Laue Pattern, Debye Waller Factor, Magnetic Neutron Diffraction, Master Formula for Scattering
5	Lecture 5: Basics of neutron scattering under Born Approximation, Correlation function, Scattering Law	Correlation function, Diffraction, Rietveldt analysis
6	Lecture 6: Basics of neutron scattering under Born Approximation, Correlation function, Scattering Law	Greens function, Scattering law,Small Angle Neutron Scattering
7	Lecture 7: Basics of neutron scattering under Born Approximation, Correlation function, Scattering Law	Neutron beam tubes, Neutron guide tubes, neutron instruments, Length scales, Inelastic scattering
8	Lecture 8: Basics of neutron scattering under Born Approximation, Correlation function, Scattering Law	Liquid and amorphous systems, Small Angle Neutron Scattering, Polarized Neutron Reflectometer, Cold neutron source, hot neutron source
9	Lecture 9: Tutorial	Tutorial: discussion on assignment 1
10	Lecture 10: Neutron Spectrometers and Neutron Detectors	Triple axis spectrometer, inelastic neutron scattering, Quasi elastic neutron scattering
11	Lecture 11: Neutron Spectrometers and Neutron Detectors	Pulsed neutron source, Time-of-flight, neutron detector, monitor detector, neutron detector
12	Lecture 12: Tutorial	Sample environment, Breit-Wigner formula, optical theorem, optical theorem
13	Lecture 13: Introduction to Detectors	Neutron Detectors, X-ray detectors, One dimensional position sensitive detectors, Area detectors
14	Lecture 14: Introduction to Magnetic Neutron Scattering	Magnetic neutron scattering, Hund’s rule, Brillouin function, Magnetic phase transition, Super exchange, RKKY interaction, Spin Glass, Spintronics
15	Lecture 15: Differential cross-section for magnetic neutron scattering in dipole approximation, Magnetic form fa	Magnetic domain, Ferromagnet, Ferrimagnet, Antiferromagnet, Bragg diffraction, Spin Polarization, Magnetic scattering length
16	Lecture 16: Determination of magnetic structures by neutron diffraction-I	Magnetic form factor, Nuclear magneton, Bohr magneton, Rietveld analysis, x-ray magnetic scattering, FullProf analysis
17	Lecture 17: Determination of magnetic structures by neutron diffraction-II	Reciprocal lattice, Ewald construction, Rietveld refinement, Bragg’s law, Magnetic scattering length
18	Lecture 18: Elastic and Inelastic Magnetic Neutron Scattering	Coherent magnetic scattering, Antiferromagnetic order, magnetic propagation vector
19	Lecture 19: Tutorial	Neutron diffraction, FullProf Suite, Rietveld analysis, Commensurate structure, Wyckoff Positions
20	Lecture 20: Polarized Neutron	Magnetic neutron diffraction,Gaussian function, Lorentzian function, Pseudo Voigt fnction, Irreducible representation, Shubnikov groups
21	Lecture 21: Neutron Depolarization in Magnetic Materials	Space group, Reciprocal lattice, Neutron depolarization, Simulated annealing
22	Lecture 22: Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem and Dynamic correlation function	Magnetic structure, site average moment, Basis vector, Symmetry operation
23	Lecture 23: Neutron scattering from spin waves	Magnetic structure, Simulated annealing, Neutron Polarization, Flipping ratio
24	Lecture 24: Tutorial	Summary of module, Neutron spectrometers, Spin-flip, Polarizing moochromators, Magnetic domain
25	Lecture 25: Vibrational spectroscopy using Inelastic Neutron Scattering (INS) Lattice dynamics theory	Inelastic neutron scattering, Quasi-elastic neutron scattering, Phonons, Phonon dispersion relation, Dynamical structure factor, Phonon density of states, Triple axis spectrometer Time-of-Flight spectrometer
26	Lecture 26: Inelastic and Quasi-elastic Neutron Scattering	Inelastic and Quasi-elastic neutron scattering, Phonons, Diffusion, Triple-axis-spectrometer, Spin-echo spectrometer
27	Lecture 27: Inelastic and Quasi-elastic Neutron Scattering	Inelastic and Quasieleastic, Periodic dynamics, Stochastic dynamics, Lattice dynamics, Phonons, Harmonic approximation, Adiabatic approximation, Density Functional theory, Phonon Density of states
28	Lecture 28: Inelastic and Quasi-elastic Neutron Scattering	Phonon Dispersion relation, Dynamical structure factor, Acoustic mode, Optic mode, Phonon population
29	Lecture 29: Tutorial on INS	Summary of the module and Tutorial
30	Lecture 30: Stochastic dynamics using Quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) Molecular dynamics simulation	Translational diffusion, Rotational diffusion, Quasi-elastic scattering, Lorentzian distribution, Self correlation, Distinct correlation, Activation energy, Collective dynamics
31	Lecture 31: Stochastic dynamics using Quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) Molecular dynamics simulation	Phonons, Crystal alignment, Lattice dynamics, problem session
32	Lecture 32: Stochastic dynamics using Quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) Molecular dynamics simulation	Quasi-elastic spectrometer, Molecular dynamics simulation, Pair potential, Spallation neutron source, Time-of-Flight spectrometer
33	Lecture 33: Tutorial on QENS	Kinetic average and Temperature, Arrhenius relation, Problem seaaion
34	Lecture 34: Small-Angle Neutron and X-Ray Scattering Facilities	Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS), Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS), Contrast variation, Guinier rgion, Fractals, SANS at Dhruva, SWAXS at INDUS II
35	Lecture 35: Contrast Variation in Small-Angle Scattering	Isotope contrast, Spin contrast, Magnetic contrast, Structure factor, Pair correlation function, Scattering length density, micelles, Anomalous SAXS
36	Lecture 36: Data Analysis Methods	Data analysis, Guinier analysis, multiple scattering, Data correction and normalization, Neutron velocity selectors, Proteins, Dynamic light scattering
37	Lecture 37: Applications to Soft Matter, Nanomaterials and Biology	Soft matter, Self assembly, Proteins, Block copolymers, Zeta potential
38	Lecture 38: Tutorial	Tutorial, Sample handling, Data analysis
39	Lecture 39: Introduction to Neutron and x-ray Reflectometry	Neutron Reflectometry, Polarized Neutron Reflectometry (PNR), X-ray Reflectometry (XRR), Neutron refractive index, Fresnel reflectivity, multilayers, Interfaces
40	Lecture 40: Reflectometry facility and data analysis	PNR, Off-specular reflectivity, PNR instrument (Dhruva), Fractal dimension, Hurst parameter, Neutron supermirror, Mezei Flipper, Position Sensitive Detector, Kiessig oscillation, Bragg peak, Debye-Waller like function, Foot-print effect
41	Lecture 41: Investigation of depth dependent magnetic structure using polarized neutron reflectivity	Data analysis, Genetic algorithm, χ2 minimization, multilayer interface, Biofilms
42	Lecture 42: Investigation of depth dependent magnetic structure using polarized neutron reflectivity	Exchange bias, Emerging phenomena at interfaces, ISIS neutron source
43	Lecture 43: Tutorial	Summary of the topic, Tutorial

Sr.No	Book Name	Author Name
1	Neutron Diffraction	G. Bacon (Clarendon, Oxford 1975)
2	Thermal Neutron Scattering	P.A. Egelstaff (Academic Press)
3	Theory of Thermal Neutron Scattering	W. Marshall, S.W. Lovesey (Clarendon,Oxford 1971)
4	Thermal Neutron Scattering	G.L. Squires (Cambridge University Press, 1978)
5	Methods in Experimental Physics, Vol. 23	eds. D.L. Price, Kurt Skold (Academic Inc.USA 1987)
6	Neutron scattering in condensed matter	A. Furrer, J. Mesot, T Strässle (world Scientific)
7	Methods of Experimental Physics	Ed. D.L. Price and K. Sköld P 99:Neutron Sources J.M. Carpentar and W.B. Yelon (Academic Press)
8	Topics in Current Physics, Vol 6 ‘Neutron Diffraction’	H. Dachs (Springer)
9	Structure Analysis by Small-Angle X-Ray and Neutron Scattering	L.A. Feigin and D.I.Svergun (Plenum Press, New York, 1987)
10	Neutron, X-Ray and Light Scattering	P. Lindner and T. Zemb (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1991)
11	Neutron Scattering from Polymers	J.S. Higgins and H. Benoit (Clarendon, Oxford, 1994)