Neutron Sciences

HB-1 is suited for parametric studies of spin and lattice excitations in specific areas of energy and momentum space in materials, such as multiferroic materials, thermoelectric materials, high-temperature superconductors, geometrically frustrated magnets, and quantum magnets, using high flux polarized and unpolarized neutrons. It can accommodate a wide variety of sample environments including high temperature furnaces (< 1770 K), ultra-low temperature cryostats (> 0.05K), vertical field cryomagnets (< 8T), pressure cells (< 2GPa), and electric field sticks (< 10kV). The half polarization technique is used to map out spin density distributions in magnetic compounds and observe chirality in frustrated magnets. The longitudinal polarization analysis is used to determine detailed spin direction and also separate magnetic and nuclear components in magnetic materials. The materials best suited for study on BH-1 facilitate power and data transmission in computers, cell phones, and power lines; impact the capacity of computer memory (hard disk); improve the efficiency of electric devices and power plants; and are vital to the eventual development of a quantum computer.