RESOLUTION CORRECTION FOR TIME-OF-FLIGHT NEUTRON-SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS USING THE MONTE-CARLO METHOD

A new efficient method has been proposed for convolution of the neutro n scattering cross section with instrumental resolution of the inelast ic time-of-flight spectrometer at pulsed neutron sources. This method has several advantages over the conventional analytical formulation of the resolution function commonly used for the triple-axis spectromete rs at steady reactors, not only because of its flexibility and capabil ity for more realistic representation of the origin of the instrumenta l broadening, but also because of its higher efficiency of computation .