TY  - CONF
AU  - Nickel, Bert
AU  - Schneck, Emanuel
AU  - Klitzing, Regine von
AU  - Rücker, Ulrich
TI  - A HiCANS neutron reflectometer for small samples and biointerfaces
M1  - FZJ-2025-03433
PY  - 2025
AB  - We discuss a concept for a small-beam neutron reflectometer. Such an instrument may be used to study membrane physics and the structure and interaction of RNA-related phases with membranes. We propose to place such an instrument at one of the new accelerator-based sources, which have inherently smaller beams. These compact neutron sources are based on a high-current linear accelerator (HiCANS). We expect that such a reflectometer can record at least six orders of magnitude in signal to noise. We highlight some recent experiments with lipid membranes to show the potential of the instrument. Furthermore, we discuss instrument concepts.
T2  - The International Conference on Neutron Scattering
CY  - 6 Jul 2025 - 10 Jul 2025, Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the last day at the European Spallation Source (ESS) in nearby Lund, Sweden (Denmark)
Y2  - 6 Jul 2025 - 10 Jul 2025
M2  - Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the last day at the European Spallation Source (ESS) in nearby Lund, Sweden, Denmark
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)24
DO  - DOI:10.34734/FZJ-2025-03433
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1044907
ER  -