Two pressure cells for quasielastic and inelastic neutron scatterings

Two clamp pressure cells for QENS and INS have been developed. One is a hybrid CuBe/NiCrAl cell which is for relative high pressure up to 2.5 GPa and another one is made from high strength aluminium alloy (mesolite NA723) with pressure up to 0.5 GPa. The sample volume is 0.3 mL and 1 mL, respectively. The pressure cells have been thoroughly calibrated and tested. In addition, the contribution to phonon density of states from the pressure cells has been evaluated. Measurements of the phonon density of states for two perfluorocarbon polymer liquids FOMBLIN oil and Fluorinert have indicated that they are suitable to serve as the low background pressure transmission media for high pressure INS experiments. The applications of the pressure cells for INS and QENS are demonstrated by studies of pressure-induced phase transition of plastic crystals. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2022. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Keywords

Inelastic scattering, Neutrons, Neutron diffraction, Aluminium, Alloys, Polymers, Oils, Pressure range, Plastics, Crystals, Pressure range, Food processing

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Yuan, B., Mole, R., Wang, C.-W., Shumack, A., White, R., Li, B., Tong, X., & Yu, D. (2022). Two pressure cells for quasielastic and inelastic neutron scatterings. Paper presented to the QENS/WINS 2022 – 15th Edition of the QENS Series and 10th of the WINS Workshops San Sebastian (Online), Spain, May 23-27, 2022. In A. Arbe and J. Colmenero (Eds.), EPJ Web Conf., 272, 02009. doi:10.1051/epjconf/202227202009

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https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202227202009
https://apo.ansto.gov.au/handle/10238/15963

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