Publisher's Synopsis
This book gives the basic information required for makingexperiments in neutron or x-ray scattering or spectroscopy.These experiments are usually executed at large facilitiesfar from the scientist's home laboratory. One of the maingoals of this book is to teach the scientist thepossibilities offered to him in these institutions. Inaddition the book can be seen as a rather completeintroduction into the physics of synchrotron radiation asapplied to condensed matter physics and to molecularbiology. The articles are based on lectures given in atwo-months course, HERCULES, installed in Grenoble to trainbiologists, chemists and physicists.The book covers the production of radiation includingtheory. It describes all aspects of instrumentation andoutlines the basics for various fields of research done inthese large facilities. The short chapters are written byexperts in the field and can be read independently. The bookmay also be used as the basis for a lecture on neutron andx-ray defraction.This volume will befollowed by two more dealing withapplications to solid state physics and chemistry as well asto biology and soft-matter physics.
