|  | Fischer, Walter E. / Morf, Rudolf
X-Rays, Neutrons and Muons
Photons and Particles for Material Characterization
 1. Edition August 2012
59.- Euro
2012. XIV, 234 Pages, Softcover
11 Fig., 6 Tab.
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ISBN 978-3-527-30774-6 - Wiley-VCH, Weinheim
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Aiming elementary particles at surfaces and observing the result in order to glean information on the material is an old discipline: spectroscopy using photons has been performed for more than a century. But recently, a number of much more exotic, subatomic particles out of cyclotrons have become available for alternative ways of probing condensed matter in order to better understand its properties and to correlate behaviour with structure. In particular, the use of several different types of particles such as x-rays, neutrons and muons yields rich information. This book gives a practical account of how they complement each other for materials characterization.
From the contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Some Historical Remarks
The Experimental Methods
The Solid as a Many Body
Survey over the Spectral Region of a Solid
THE PROBES, THEIR ORIGIN AND PROPERTIES
Origin
Properties
Magnetic Field of the Probing Particles
INTERACTION OF THE PROBES WITH THE CONSTITUENTS OF MATTER
The Nuclear Interaction of Neutrons
Interaction of X-Rays with Atomic Constituents
Magnetic Interaction
Corollar
SCATTERING ON (BULK-)SAMPLES
Introduction
The Sample as a Thermodynamic System
The Scattering Experiment
Properties of the Scattering and Correlation Function
General Form of Spin-Dependent Cross-Sections
Summary and Conclusions
GENERAL THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Time Development of the Density Operator
Generalized Suspectibility
Dielectric Response Function and Sum Rules
APPENDIX A: PRINCIPLES OF SCATTERING THEORY
Potential Scattering (Supporting Section 3.1.1)
Two Particle Scattering (Supporting Section 3.1.2)
Abstract Scattering Theory (Supporting Section 3.2)
Time-Dependent Perturbation
Scattering of Light on Atoms
Polarization and its Analysis
APPENDIX B: FORM FACTORS
APPENDIX C: REMINDER ON STATISTICAL MECHANICS
The Statistical Operator P
The Equation of Motion
Entropy
Thermal Equilibrium - The Canonical Distribution
Thermodynamics
APPENDIX D: THE MAGNETIC MATRIX-ELEMENTS
The Trammell Expansion
The Matrix Elements
Conclusion
APPENDIX E: THE PRINCIPLE OF A MSR-EXPERIMENT
APPENDIX F: REFLECTION SYMMETRY AND TIME-REVERSAL INVARIANCE
Invariance Under Space Inversion Q
Invariance Under Time Reversal
APPENDIX G: PHONON COUPLING TO HEAT BATH
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