MIEZE (Modulation of IntEnsity by Zero Effort) and Multi-level MIEZE are variants of the Neutron Resonance Spin Echo (NRSE) technique, a neutron scattering method for the study of dynamics on an atomic scale with high energy resolution.
The objective of the dissertation was to prove the Multi-level MIEZE principle, which consists in the stacking of several single MIEZE setups to achieve a sharpening of the main peaks in the high-frequency, time-modulated signal without loss of contrast. The predicted signal form and hence the principle could be verified in measurements using a two-level Multi-MIEZE setup.
For the Multi-level MIEZE measurements at the very cold beam-line of the instrument MIRA at the research neutron source FRM-II, a complete set of NRSE instrumentation was designed and built, which will continued to be used as permanent NRSE and MIEZE measurement options. For that purpose, a new type of resonance flipper coils was conceptualized, constructed, and taken into operation.
In the theoretical part of the work, the quantum mechanical formalism of time-evolution operators was on the one hand applied to polarization theory in general, on the other hand to the MIEZE technique using a new approach, which considers the splitting in energy and momentum of the spin-up and spin-down states more consistently.
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MIEZE (Modulation of IntEnsity by Zero Effort) and Multi-level MIEZE are variants of the Neutron Resonance Spin Echo (NRSE) technique, a neutron scattering method for the study of dynamics on an atomic scale with high energy resolution.
The objective of the dissertation was to prove the Multi-level MIEZE principle, which consists in the stacking of several single MIEZE setups to achieve a sharpening of the main peaks in the high-frequency, time-modulated signal without loss of contrast. The p...
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