The Center For High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS)

The Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) is a national user facility that is jointly funded by the National Science Foundation under Agreement Number DMR-0454672, and by the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). CHRNS develops and operates state-of-the-art neutron scattering instrumentation with broad applications in materials research for use by the general scientific community. Combined, CHRNS instruments can provide structural information on a length scale of 1 nm to ~10 microns, and dynamical information on energy scales from ~30 neV to ~100 meV. These are the widest ranges accessible at any neutron research center in North America. The instruments are used by university, government and industrial researchers in materials science, chemistry, biology and condensed matter physics to investigate materials such as polymers, metals, ceramics, magnetic materials, porous media, fluids and gels, and biological molecules. Proposals for use of the CHRNS facilities are considered solely on the basis of scientific merit or technological importance.

CHRNS scientific highlights
Education and outreach activities
Instrument Web pages
Instrument schedules
Instrument publication lists
Acknowledging CHRNS in publications

CHRNS presently operates six neutron scattering instruments:

• a 30 meter, high resolution, small-angle neutron scattering instrument (NG3);
• a diffractometer for ultra-high-resolution small angle scattering (USANS);
• a cold-neutron, triple-axis, neutron scattering spectrometer (SPINS);
• a very flexible cold-neutron time-of-flight spectrometer (DCS);
• a backscattering spectrometer with 1 microeV resolution (HFBS);
• a neutron spin echo spectrometer (NSE)

Contacts:	Dan Neumann, CHRNS Director, (301)975-5252, dan@nist.gov
	John Copley, CHRNS Associate Director, (301)975-5133, john.copley@nist.gov

Last modified 16-April-2008