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@ARTICLE{Bentley:201672,
author = {Bentley, Phillip M. and Kennedy, Shane J. and Andersen, Ken
H. and Martin Rodríguez, Damián and Mildner, David F. R.},
title = {{C}orrection of optical aberrations in elliptic neutron
guides},
journal = {Nuclear instruments $\&$ methods in physics research / A},
volume = {693},
issn = {0168-9002},
address = {Amsterdam},
publisher = {North-Holland Publ. Co.},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-03966},
pages = {268 - 275},
year = {2012},
abstract = {Modern, nonlinear ballistic neutron guides are an
attractive concept in neutron beam delivery and
instrumentation because they offer increased performance
over straight or linearly tapered guides. However, like
other ballistic geometries they have the potential to create
significantly non-trivial instrumental resolution functions.
We address the source of the most prominent optical
aberration, namely coma, and we show that for extended
sources the off-axis rays have a different focal length from
on-axis rays, leading to multiple reflections in the guide
system. We illustrate how the interplay between coma,
sources of finite size, and mirrors with non-perfect
reflectivity can therefore conspire to produce uneven
distributions in the neutron beam divergence, a source of
complicated resolution functions. To solve these problems,
we propose a hybrid elliptic–parabolic guide geometry.
Using this new kind of neutron guide shape, it is possible
to condition the neutron beam and remove almost all of the
aberrations, whilst providing the same performance in beam
current as a standard elliptic neutron guide. We highlight
the positive implications for neutron scattering instruments
that this new shape can bring.},
cin = {ICS-1 / JCNS-1},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-1-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-1-20110106},
pnm = {451 - Soft Matter Composites (POF2-451) / 54G - JCNS
(POF2-54G24)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-451 / G:(DE-HGF)POF2-54G24},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000311008400035},
doi = {10.1016/j.nima.2012.07.002},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/201672},
}