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@ARTICLE{Houben:21221,
author = {Houben, A. and Schweika, W. and Brückel, T. and
Dronskowski, R.},
title = {{N}ew neutron-guide concepts and simulation results for teh
{POWTEX} instrument},
journal = {Nuclear instruments $\&$ methods in physics research / A},
volume = {680},
issn = {0168-9002},
address = {Amsterdam},
publisher = {North-Holland Publ. Co.},
reportid = {PreJuSER-21221},
pages = {124 - 133},
year = {2012},
note = {Jorg Voigt is acknowledged for taking part in discussions
about elliptic neutron guides. Klaus Lieutenant and Michael
Fromme are acknowledged for their effort on the VITESS
software. We acknowledge funding from the German Federal
Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the frame of a
"Verbundforschungsprojekt".},
abstract = {The POWTEX instrument will be a high-intensity
time-of-flight diffractometer at a continuous reactor
source. Its design utilizes several new concepts and is
suited for small samples. Herein, the optimization of the
guide system is presented. It is based on two coupled
elliptic neutron guides intersected by the pulse-chopper as
an eye of a needle to increase the time resolution and to
reduce the background transported from the source. The
optical properties of two coupled ellipses are investigated
with respect to their design constraints in terms of
geometry and regarding the choice of the super-mirror
coating. It is shown that low-divergent neutrons are
preferentially transported near the pulse-chopper.
Accordingly, a numerical optimization is utilized to tailor
the coating to the instrument requirements using the
back-tracing method that has been developed for the VITESS
Monte-Carlo simulation package for virtual instrumentation.
The procedure allows for a cost and background optimization
because the me-value can be kept as low as needed. For a
diffractometer, the homogeneity of the divergence profile is
crucial. Herein, the new development of neutron guides with
octagonal cross sections is investigated. Appendix A shows a
step-by-step description of the newly developed optimization
features within VITESS as it was used for POVVTEX. (C) 2012
Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {PGI-4 / JCNS-2 / JARA-FIT},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-4-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-2-20110106 /
$I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$},
pnm = {Grundlagen für zukünftige Informationstechnologien
(FUEK412) / 544 - In-house Research with PNI (POF2-544)},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK412 / G:(DE-HGF)POF2-544},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)POWTEX-20140101},
shelfmark = {Instruments $\&$ Instrumentation / Nuclear Science $\&$
Technology / Physics, Particles $\&$ Fields / Spectroscopy},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000304894600021},
doi = {10.1016/j.nima.2012.03.015},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/21221},
}