Neutrons Sciences Directorate at ORNL

The Elastic Diffuse Scattering Spectrometer

CORELLI

The CORELLI instrument.

CORELLI is a statistical chopper spectrometer with energy discrimination. It's designed and optimized to probe complex disorder in crystalline materials through diffuse scattering of single-crystal samples. The momentum transfer ranges from 0.5 to 12 Å-1, and the energy of incident neutrons ranges from 10 to 200 meV.

This instrument combines the high efficiency of white-beam Laue diffraction with energy discrimination by modulating the beam with a statistical chopper. A cross-correlation method is used to reconstruct the elastic signal from the modulated data. Accurate modeling of the short-range order associated with the diffuse scattering requires measurements over large volumes of three-dimensional reciprocal space, with sufficient momentum resolution to distinguish the diffuse signal from the strong Bragg peaks.

Applications

  • Material science, including colossal magnetoresistance materials, ferroelectric relaxors, and fast ion conductors
  • Condensed matter physics, including high-temperature superconductors, geometrically frustrated systems, and quantum critical phenomena
  • Molecular systems, including molecular solids and microporous framework systems
CORELLI

Neutron Sciences staff working on the construction of Corelli.