Talk:Neutron scattering

Alison Chaiken 20:46, 8 September 2005 (UTC): Neutron diffraction is the primary type of elastic neutron scattering but there should be an article on inelastic neutron scattering as well. The redirect should be modified to acknowledge this fact, possible by redirecting to a page with two links, one of which points to the neutron diffraction article, and one of which points to the future inelastic neutron scattering article.

keep them distinguished
neutron diffraction is part of neutron scattering. the diffraction field is so large, that it should be distinguished from other neutron scattering techniques. i would not merge the two articles.

keep and close discussion. Neutron scattering is important enough to be covered in one overview article and several specialized ones. Priority should not be merging or other restructuring, but adding contents. -- Marie Poise (talk) 20:23, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

magnetic moment
The magnetic moment section is wrong--it confuses electric and magnetic dipole moments. Electric is extremely small, but magnetic is almost as large as the proton. 82.207.49.158 (talk) 10:09, 24 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Could you possibly help us by correcting this error? New collaborators are badly needed in this field! -- Nsda (talk) 12:05, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

synchrotron source
What is meant here:
 * Thus neutrons can be used to analyse materials with low atomic numbers like proteins and surfactants. This can be done at synchrotron sources but very high intensities are needed which may cause the structures to change.

"This can be done at synchrotron neutron sources like ISIS ..." or "This can also be done with X-Ray photons from synchrotron sources ..."? Snassyr (talk) 08:48, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Neutron capture
I see that the article does not say whether neutron capture can happen at the moment of scattering.--109.166.137.46 (talk) 18:17, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose to merge Inelastic neutron scattering into Neutron scattering. I think that the content in the Inelastic neutron scattering article can easily be explained in the context of neutron scattering, and the Inelastic neutron scattering article is a stub, so merging of these two will not cause any problems as far as article size is concerned. Said article also lacks a talk page and has been in this state since at least 2010. Footlessmouse (talk) 03:32, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 17:21, 4 April 2021 (UTC)