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If you have written a paper that reports measurements using the DCS and you do not see it in the list below, or if the paper is listed but the information is incorrect or out of date, please inform John Copley.

If you write a paper that reports measurements using the DCS, please be sure to (a) include an acknowledgement to the NSF, and to NIST if there are no NIST coauthors, and (b) include a reference to the following recent paper describing the DCS: J.R.D. Copley and J.C. Cook, "The Disk Chopper Spectrometer at NIST: a new instrument for quasielastic neutron scattering studies", Chem. Phys. 292, 477 (2003). Thanks!

If you used the DAVE software package to treat your data please include an appropriate reference or acknowledgement.

Please be aware that all papers with NIST coauthors must be reviewed and approved by the Washington Editorial Review Board (WERB). Members of WERB are concerned not only with scientific merit but with three specific matters: measurement uncertainties, the use of SI units, and brand names. For more detailed information please click here, and/or speak with your NIST coauthor(s).


The Fermi Chopper Spectrometer (FCS) was shut down in 2007.
For an (incomplete) list of FCS publications click here.

Papers resulting, in whole or in part, from experiments performed using the DCS.

 Submitted for publication
  1. K. Iida, T.J. Sato, Y. Qiu, H. Ishikawa, and T. Yamase, "Neutron scattering study on the Mn6Sb2 molecular magnet."
  2. J.P. Clancy, J.P.C. Ruff, S.R. Dunsiger, Y. Zhao, H.A. Dabkowska, J.S. Gardner, Y. Qiu, J.R.D. Copley, T. Jenkins, and B.D. Gaulin, "Revisiting Static and Dynamic Spin Ice Correlations in Ho2Ti2O7".
  3. M.E. Johnson, C. Malardier-Jugroot, R.K. Murarka, T. Head-Gordon, "Hydration Water Dynamics near Biological Interfaces".
  4. Duncan Kilburn, Paul E Sokol, and Craig M. Brown, "Inelastic neutron scattering from confined molecular oxygen".
  5. H.D. Zhou, C.R. Wiebe, L. Balicas, Y.J. Yo, Y. Qiu, J.R.D. Copley, and J.S. Gardner, "Intrinsic spin-ordered ground state of the Ising garnet Ho3Ga5O12".
  6. J.G. Barker, D.F.R. Mildner, J. A. Rodriguez, and P. Thiyagarajan, "Neutron transmission of single-crystal magnesium fluoride".
  7. S. Chi, D.T. Adroja, T. Guidi, R. Bewley, S. Li, J. Zhao, J.W. Lynn, C.M. Brown, Y. Qiu, G.F. Chen, J.L. Lou, N.L. Wang, and P. Dai, "The crystalline electric field as a probe for long range antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in CeFeAsO1-xFx".
  8. W. Zhou, H. Wu, T. J. Udovic, J. J. Rush, T. Yildirim, "Quasi-free Methyl Rotation in Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 (ZIF8)".
  9. J.A. Janik, H.D. Zhou, Y.-J. Jo, L. Balicas, G.J. MacDougall, G.M. Luke, J.D. Garrett, K.J. McClellan, E.D. Bauer, J.L. Sarrao, Y. Qiu, J.R.D. Copley, Z. Yamani, W.J.L. Buyers, and C.R. Wiebe, "Itinerant spin excitations near the hidden order transition in URu2Si2".
  10. D. Russo, J. Ollivier, and J. Teixeira, "The impact of hydration water on hydrophobic peptides side chain dynamics from dry powder to solution".
  11. P.M. Gehring, H. Hiraka, C. Stock, S.-H. Lee, W. Chen, Z.-G. Ye, S.B. Vakhrushev, and Z. Chowdhuri, "A reassessment of the Burns temperature and its relationship to the diffuse scattering, lattice dynamics, and thermal expansion in the relaxor PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3".
  12. H.D. Zhou, C.R. Wiebe, J.A. Janik, L. Balicas, Y.J. Yo, Y. Qiu, J.R.D. Copley, and J.S. Gardner, "A dynamic spin ice: Pr2Sn2O7".
  13. E. Blackburn, S.K. Sinha, C. Broholm, J.R.D. Copley, R.W. Erwin, and J.M. Goodkind, "Roton-like mode in solid 4He".
  14. G. Lelong, W.S. Howells, I. Peral, J.W. Brady, C. Talon, D.L. Price, and M.-L. Saboungi, "Translational and rotational dynamics in monosaccharide solutions".
  15. H.D. Zhou, C.R. Wiebe, M.A. Castellano, L. Balicas, Y.J. Jo, M.J. Case, Y. Qiu, J.R.D. Copley, V. Ramachandran, N.S. Dalal, and J.S. Gardner, "Field induced Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in a Kagome spin liquid Pr3Ga5SiO14".
  16. W. Bao, Y.-X. Wang, Y. Qiu, K. Li, J. Lin,and R.W. Erwin, "Spin order and excitations of a model triangular antiferromagnet".
Accepted, and/or in press
  1. S.R. Dunsiger, Y. Zhao, B.D. Gaulin, Y. Qiu, P. Bourges, Y. Sidis, J.R.D. Copley, A. Kallin, E.M. Mazurek, and H.A. Dabkowska, "Diagonal and collinear incommensurate spin structures in underdoped La2-xBaxCuO4", Phys. Rev. B.
  2. E. Blackburn, J.M. Goodkind, S.K. Sinha, C. Broholm, J.R.D. Copley, and R.W. Erwin, "Neutron scattering study of the excitation spectrum of solid helium at ultra-low temperatures", Pramana - Journal of Physics.
  3. Y. Ikedo, H. Nozaki, M. Harada, J. Sugiyama, T.J. Sato, Y. Matsuo, K. Nishiyama, J.S. Lord, Y. Qiu, and J.R.D. Copley, "Study of hydrogen diffusion in superprotonic ionic conductors, MHXO4, by μ+SR and QENS", Nucl. Instr. Meth. A.
  4. J.C. Lashley, R. Stevens, M.K. Crawford, J. Boerio-Goates, B.F. Woodfield, Y. Qiu, J.W. Lynn, P.A. Goddard, and R.A. Fisher, "Specific heat and magnetic susceptibility of the spinels GeNi2O4 and GeCo2O4 in a magnetic field", Phys. Rev. B.
Published in 2008
  1. J.P.C. Ruff, J.P. Clancy, A. Bourque, M.A. White, M. Ramazanoglu, J.S. Gardner, Y. Qiu, J.R.D. Copley, M.B. Johnson, H.A. Dabkowska, and B.D. Gaulin, "Spin waves and quantum criticality in the frustrated XY pyrochlore antiferromagnet Er2Ti2O7", Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147205 (2008).
  2. J.-H. Kim, S. Ji, S.-H. Lee, B. Lake, T. Yildirim, H. Nojiri, H. Kikuchi, K. Habicht, Y. Qiu, and K. Kiefer, "External magnetic field effects on a distorted kagome antiferromagnet", Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107201 (2008).
  3. T. Guidi, S. Carretta, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, R. Caciuffo, A. Hiess, J.R.D. Copley, Y. Qiu, G. Timco, and R.E.P. Winpenny, "Quantum oscillations of the total spin in a heterometallic antiferromagnetic ring", Notiziario Neutroni e Luce di Sincrotrone 13 (2), 4 (2008). Alternatively see T. Guidi et al., "Quantum oscillations of the total spin in a heterometallic antiferromagnetic ring", ILL Annual Report 2007: Scientific highlights - Magnetism (2008).
  4. Y. Liu, J.-H. Her, A. Dailly, A.J. Ramirez-Cuesta, D.A. Neumann, and C.M. Brown, "Reversible structural transition in MIL-53 with large temperature hysteresis", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 11813 (2008).
  5. G. Amoretti, R. Caciuffo, S. Carretta, T. Guidi, N. Magnani, and P. Santini, "Inelastic neutron scattering investigations of molecular nanomagnets", Inorganica Chimica Acta 361, 3771 (2008).
  6. Y. Qiu, M. Kofu, W. Bao, S.-H. Lee, Q. Huang, T. Yildirim, J.R.D. Copley, J.W. Lynn, T. Wu, G. Wu, and X.H. Chen, "Neutron scattering study of the oxypnictide superconductor LaFeAsO0.87F0.13", Phys. Rev. B 78, 052508 (2008).
  7. K. Kamazawa, D. Louca, R. Morinaga, T.J. Sato, Q. Huang, J.R.D. Copley, and Y. Qiu, "Field-induced antiferromagnetism and competition in the metamagnetic state of terbium gallium garnet", Phys. Rev. B 78, 064412 (2008),
  8. W. Zhou, H. Wu, T. Yildirim, J.R. Simpson, A.R. Hight Walker, "Origin of the exceptional negative thermal expansion in metal organic framework-5 Zn4O(1,4-benzenedicarboxylate)3", Phys. Rev. B 78, 054114 (2008).
  9. F. Mallamace, C. Branca, M. Broccio, C. Corsaro, N. Gonzalez-Segredo, J. Spooren, H.E. Stanley, and S.H. Chen, "Transport properties of supercooled confined water", European Phys. J. - Special Topics 161 (1), 19 (2008).
  10. C. Malardier-Jugroot, M.E. Johnson, R.K. Murarka, and T. Head-Gordon, "Aqueous peptides as experimental models for hydration water dynamics near protein surfaces", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 10, 4903 (2008).
  11. D. Russo, J. Ollivier, and J. Teixeira, "Water hydrogen bond analysis on hydrophilic and hydrophobic biomolecule sites", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 10, 4968 (2008).
  12. C. Chen, P. Depa, J.K. Maranas, and V. Garcia Sakai, "Comparison of explicit atom, united atom, and coarse-grained simulations of poly(methyl methacrylate)", J. Chem. Phys. 128, 124906 (2008).
  13. S. Khodadadi, S. Pawlus, J.H. Roh, V. Garcia Sakai, E. Mamontov, and A.P. Sokolov, "The origin of the dynamic transition in proteins", J. Chem. Phys. 128, 195106 (2008). 
  14. V. Garcia Sakai, J.K. Maranas, I. Peral, and J.R.D. Copley, "Dynamics of PEO in blends with PMMA: study of the effects of blend composition via quasi-elastic neutron scattering", Macromolecules 41, 3701 (2008).
  15. G. Ehlers, E. Mamontov, M. Zamponi, A. Faraone, Y. Qiu, A.L. Cornelius, C.H. Booth, K.C. Kam, R. Le Toquin, A.K. Cheetham, and J.S. Gardner, "Frustrated spin correlations in diluted spin ice Ho2-xLaxTi2O7", J. Phys.: Condensed Matter 20, 235206 (2008).
  16. D. Russo, "The impact of kosmotropes and chaotropes on bulk and hydration shell water dynamics in a model peptide solution", Chem. Phys. 345, 200 (2008).
  17. T.J. Udovic, C.M. Brown, J. Leao, P.C. Brand, R.D. Jiggetts, R. Zeitoun, T.A. Pierce, I. Peral, J.R.D. Copley, Q. Huang, D.A. Neumann, and R.J. Fields, "The design of a bismuth-based auxiliary filter for the removal of spurious background scattering associated with filter-analyzer neutron spectrometers", Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 588, 406 (2008).
  18. M.B. Stone, M.D. Lumsden, Y. Qiu, E.C. Samulon, C.D. Batista, and I.R. Fisher, "Dispersive magnetic excitations in the S = 1 antiferromagnet Ba3Mn2O8", Phys. Rev. B 77, 134406 (2008).
  19. D. Hsieh, D. Qian, R.F. Berger, R.J. Cava, J.W. Lynn, Q. Huang, M.Z. Hasan, "Unconventional spin order in the triangular lattice system NaCrO2: a neutron scattering study", Physica B 403, 1341 (2008).
  20. G. Ehlers, J.S. Gardner, Y. Qiu, P. Fouquet, C.R. Wiebe, L. Balicas, and H.D. Zhou, "Dynamic spin correlations in 'stuffed' spin ice Ho2+xTi2-xO7-δ, Phys. Rev. B 77, 052404 (2008).
  21. S.-H. Chen, F. Mallamace, L. Liu, D.Z. Liu, X.Q. Chu, Y. Zhang, C. Kim, A. Faraone, C.-Y. Mou, E. Fratini, P. Baglioni, A.I. Kolesnikov, and V. Garcia Sakai, "Dynamic crossover phenomenon in confined supercooled water and its relation to the existence of a liquid-liquid critical point in water", in Complex Systems, ed. by M. Tokuyama, I. Oppenheim, and H. Nishiyama, AIP Conf. Proc. 982, 39 (2008). [Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Complex Systems (Sendai, 9/25-28/07).]
  22. V.O. Garlea, A. Zheludev, L.-P. Regnault, J.-H. Chung, Y. Qiu, M. Boehm, K. Habicht, and M. Meissner, "Excitations in a four leg antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin tube", Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 037206 (2008).
  23. J. van Duijn, N. Hur, J.W. Taylor, Y. Qiu, Q.Z. Huang, S.-W. Cheong, C. Broholm, and T.G. Perring, "From cooperative paramagnetism to Néel order in Y2Ru2O7: neutron scattering measurements.", Phys. Rev. B 77, 020405 (2008).
Published in 2007
  1. K.C. Rule, G. Ehlers, J.R. Stewart, A.L. Cornelius, P.P. Deen, Y. Qiu, C.R. Wiebe, J.A. Janik, H.D. Zhou, D. Antonio, B.W. Woytko, J.P. Ruff, H.A. Dabkowska, B.D. Gaulin, and J.S. Gardner, "Polarized inelastic neutron scattering of the partially ordered Tb2Sn2O7", Phys. Rev. B 76, 212405 (2007).
  2. H.D. Zhou, B.W. Vogt, J.A. Janik, Y.-J. Jo, L. Balicas, Y. Qiu, J.R.D. Copley, J.S. Gardner, and C.R. Wiebe, "Partial field-induced magnetic order in the spin-liquid kagomé Nd3Ga5SiO14", Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236401 (2007).
  3. K.T. Tait, F. Trouw, Y. Zhao, C.M. Brown, and R.T. Downs, "Inelastic neutron scattering study of hydrogen in d8-THF/D2O ice clathrate", J. Chem. Phys. 127, 134505 (2007).
  4. F. Ye, J.A. Fernandez-Baca, R.S. Fishman, Y. Ren, H.J. Kang, Y. Qiu, and T. Kimura, "Magnetic interactions in the geometrically frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFeO2", Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 157201 (2007).
  5. S.-H. Lee, H. Kikuchi, Y. Qiu, B. Lake, Q. Huang, K. Habicht, and K. Kiefer, "Quantum spin liquid states in the two dimensional kagomé antiferromagnets ZnxCu4-x(OD)6Cl2", Nature Materials 6, 853 (2007), doi:10.1038/nmat1986.
  6. W. Montfrooij, J. Lamsal, M. Aronson, M. Bennet, A. de Visser, H.Y. Kai, N.T. Huy, M. Yethiraj, M. Lumsden, and Y. Qiu, "Ground state of a quantum critical system: neutron scattering on Ce(Ru1-xFex)2Ge2", Phys. Rev. B 76, 052404 (2007).
  7. A.V. Skripov, T.J. Udovic, and J.J. Rush, "Hydrogen jump diffusion in C14-type ZrMn2H3: quasielastic neutron scattering study", Phys. Rev. B 76, 104305 (2007).
  8. A. Zheludev, V. O. Garlea, T. Masuda, H. Manaka, L.-P. Regnault, E. Ressouche, B. Grenier, J.-H. Chung, Y. Qiu, K. Habicht, K. Kiefer, and M. Boehm, "Dynamics of quantum spin liquid and spin solid phases in IPA-CuCl3 under an applied field studied with neutron scattering", Phys. Rev. B 76, 054450 (2007).
  9. H.D. Zhou, C.R. Wiebe, Y.J. Jo, L. Balicas, Y. Qiu, J.R.D. Copley, G. Ehlers, P. Fouquet, and J.S. Gardner, "The origin of persistent spin dynamics and residual entropy in the stuffed spin ice Ho2.3Ti1.7O7-δ", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter. 19, 342201 (2007).
  10. Z.Q. Wiren, H. Kepa, C.M. Brown, J. Leao, S. Kolesnik, B. Dabrowski, J.K. Furdyna, and T.M. Giebultowicz, "Studies of intrinsic exchange interactions in Zn(Mn)O, Zn(Mn)S and Zn(Mn)Te at 4 kbar by inelastic neutron scattering", Physics of Semiconductors: 28th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, W. Jantsch and F. Schaffler, eds., AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 893, pp. 1197-1198 (2007).
  11. D. Russo, G.L. Hura, and J.R.D. Copley, "Effects of hydration water on protein methyl group dynamics in solution", Phys. Rev. E 75, 040902(R) (2007).
  12. V.O. Garlea, A. Zheludev, T. Masuda, H. Manaka, L-P. Regnault, E. Ressouche, B. Grenier, J.-H. Chung, Y. Qiu, K. Habicht, K. Kiefer, and M. Boehm, "Excitations from a Bose-Einstein condensate of magnons in coupled spin ladders", Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 167202 (2007).
  13. S. Carretta, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, T. Guidi, J.R.D. Copley, Y. Qiu, R. Caciuffo, G. Timco and R.E.P. Winpenny, "Quantum oscillations of the total spin in a heterometallic antiferromagnetic ring: evidence from neutron spectroscopy", Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 167401 (2007).
  14. E. Mamontov, L. Vlcek, D.J. Wesolowski, P.T. Cummings, W. Wang, L.M. Anovitz, J. Rosenqvist, C.M. Brown, V. Garcia Sakai, "Dynamics and structure of hydration water on rutile and cassiterite nano-powders studied by quasielastic neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulations", J. Phys. Chem. C. 111, 4328 (2007).
  15. J.S. Helton, K. Matan, M.P. Shores, E.A. Nytko, B.M. Bartlett, Y. Yoshida, Y. Takano, A. Suslov, Y. Qiu, J.-H. Chung, D.G. Nocera, and Y.S. Lee, "Spin dynamics of the spin-1/2 kagomé lattice antiferromagnet ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2", Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107204 (2007).
  16. A.D. Enevoldsen, F.Y. Hansen, A. Diama, H. Taub, R.M. Dimeo, D.A. Neumann, and J.R.D. Copley, "Comparative study of normal and branched alkane monolayer films adsorbed on a solid surface: II. Dynamics", J. Chem. Phys. 126, 104704 (2007).
  17. E. Mamontov, "Mobility of water on oxide surfaces studied by QENS", in Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering Conference 2006 (QENS2006), ed. P.E. Sokol, H. Kaiser, D. Baxter, R. Pynn, D. Bossev, M. Leuschner (Mat. Res. Soc., Warrendale, PA, 2007), 13.
  18. C. Malardier-Jugroot and T. Head-Gordon, "Separable cooperative and localized translational motions of water confined by a chemically heterogeneous environment", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 9, 1962 (2007).
  19. C.R. Wiebe, J.A. Janik, G.J. MacDougall, G.M. Luke, J.D. Garrett, H.D. Zhou, Y.-J. Jo, L. Balicas, Y. Qiu, J.R.D. Copley, Z. Yamani, and W.J.L. Buyers, "Gapped itinerant spin excitations account for missing entropy in the hidden order state of URu2Si2", Nature Physics 3, 96 (2007), doi:10.1038/nphys522. [See also V. Tripathi, P. Chandra, and P. Coleman, Nature Physics 3, 78 (2007).]
  20. T. Guidi, J.R.D. Copley, Y.Qiu, S. Carretta, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, G. Timco, R.E.P. Winpenny, C.L. Dennis, and R. Caciuffo, "Spin dynamics of Fe7M (M=Zn, Mn) heterometallic rings probed by neutron spectroscopy", Phys. Rev. B. 75, 014408 (2007).
  21. M. Doxastakis, V. Garcia Sakai, S. Ohtake, J.K. Maranas, and J.J. de Pablo, "A molecular view of melting in anhydrous phospholipidic membranes", Biophys. J. 92, 147 (2007).
Published in 2006
  1. C. Chen, J.K. Maranas, and V. Garcia Sakai, "Local dynamics of syndiotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) using molecular dynamics simulation", Macromolecules 39, 9630 (2006).
  2. E. Fratini, F. Ridi, S.-H. Chen, and P. Baglioni, "Hydration water and microstructure in calcium silicate and aluminate hydrates", J. Phys: Cond. Matt. 18, S2467 (2006).
  3. R.L. Cappelletti, T.J. Udovic, Z. Chowdhuri, B.C. Hauback, A.J. Maeland, and R.M. Dimeo, "Diffusive hydrogen motion in ZrBe2H0.56: a quasielastic neutron scattering study", Physica B 385-386, 208 (2006).
  4. R. Caciuffo, T. Guidi, G. Amoretti, S. Carretta, N. Magnani, P. Santini, and C. Mondelli, "Spin dynamics of molecular nanomagnets", Physica B 385-386, 301 (2006).
  5. H. Kepa, S. Kolesnik, Z. Wiren, J. Leao, C.M. Brown, B. Dabrowski, J.K. Furdyna, and T.M. Giebultowicz, "Inelastic neutron scattering from antiferromagnetically coupled nearest-neighbor spin pairs in Zn(Mn)O and Zn(Mn)Te", Physica B 385-386, 388 (2006).
  6. C.M. Brown, T.L. Jacques, N.J. Hess, L.L. Daemen, E. Mamontov, J.C. Linehan, A.C. Stowe, and T. Autrey, "Dynamics of ammonia borane using neutron scattering", Physica B 385-386, 266 (2006).
  7. H. Bhat, I. Peral, J.R.D. Copley, and C.A. Angell, "The boson peak in melt-formed and damage-formed glasses: a defect signature?", Proc. 5th Int. Disc. Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems, Lille, July 2005, J. Non-Cryst. Solids 352, 4517 (2006).
  8. T. Hong, M. Kenzelmann, M.M. Turnbull, C.P. Landee, B.D. Lewis, K.P. Schmidt, G.S. Uhrig, Y. Qiu, C. Broholm, and D. Reich, "Neutron scattering from a coordination polymer quantum paramagnet", Phys. Rev. B. 74, 094434 (2006).
  9. J.A. Rodriguez, S.C. Moss, J.L. Robertson, J.R.D. Copley, D.A. Neumann, and J. Major, "Neutron scattering studies of short-range order, atomic displacements, and effective pair interactions, in a null matrix 62Ni0.52Pt0.48 crystal", Phys. Rev. B 74, 104115 (2006).
  10. J.H. Roh, J.E. Curtis, S. Azzam, V.N. Novikov, I. Peral, Z. Chowdhuri, R.B. Gregory, and A.P. Sokolov, "Influence of hydration on the dynamics of lysozyme", Biophys. J. 91, 2573 (2006).
  11. L. Liu, S.-H. Chen, A. Faraone, C.-W. Yen, C.-Y. Mou, A. Kolesnikov, E. Mamontov, and J. Leao, "Quasielastic and inelastic neutron scattering investigation of fragile-to-strong crossover in deeply supercooled water confined in nanoporous silica matrices", J. Phys.: Condensed Matter, 18, S2261-S2284 (2006).
  12. S.-H. Chen, F. Mallamace, C.-Y. Mou, M. Broccio, C. Corsaro, A. Faraone, and L. Liu, "The violation of the Stokes-Einstein relation in supercooled water" , PNAS 103, 12974 (2006).
  13. Z. Zhang, D. Louca, A. Visinoiu, S.-H. Lee, J.D. Thompson, T. Proffen, A. Llobet, Y. Qiu, S. Park, and Y. Ueda "Local order and frustration in the geometrically frustrated spinels Cd1-xZnxV2O4", Phys. Rev B74, 014108 (2006).
  14. K. Matan, D. Grohol, D.G. Nocera, T. Yildirim, A.B. Harris, S.H. Lee, S.E. Nagler, and Y.S. Lee, "Spin waves in the frustrated Kagomé lattice antiferromagnet KFe3(OH)6(SO4)2", Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247201 (2006)
  15. R.L. Cappelletti, Z. Chowdhuri, T.J. Udovic, R.M. Dimeo, B.C. Hauback, and A.J. Maeland, "Quasielastic neutron scattering study of diffusive hydrogen motion in ZrBe2H0.56", Phys. Rev. B. 73, 224109 (2006).
  16. C. Chen, P. Depa, V. Garcia Sakai, J. K. Maranas, J. W. Lynn, I. Peral, and J.R.D. Copley, "A comparison of united atom, explicit atom and coarse-grained simulation models for poly(ethylene oxide)", J. Chem. Phys. 124, 234901 (2006).
  17. M.B. Stone, M.D. Lumsden, R. Jin, B.C. Sales, D. Mandrus, S.E. Nagler, and Y.Qiu, "Temperature dependent bilayer ferromagnetism in Sr3Ru2O7", Phys. Rev. B 73, 174426 (2006).
  18. S.-H. Chen and C.-K. Loong, "Neutron scattering investigations of proton dynamics of water and hydroxyl species in confined geometries", Nuclear Engineering and Technology 38, 201 (2006).
  19. D.A. Neumann, "Neutron scattering and hydrogenous materials", Materials Today 9, 34 (2006).
  20. K.C. Rule, J.P.C. Ruff, B.D. Gaulin, S.R. Dunsiger, J.S. Gardner, J.P. Clancy, M.J. Lewis, H.A. Dabkowska, I. Mirebeau, P. Manuel, Y. Qiu, and J.R.D. Copley, "Field-induced order and spin waves in the pyrochlore antiferromagnet Tb2Ti2O7", Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177201 (2006).
  21. S. Kolesnik, B. Dabrowski, Z.Q. Wiren, H. Kepa, T.M. Giebultowicz, C. M. Brown, J. Leao, and J.K. Furdyna, "Determination of antiferromagnetic interactions in Zn(Mn)O, Zn(Co)O and Zn(Mn)Te by inelastic neutron scattering", J. Appl. Phys. 99, 08M122 (2006).
  22. S. Carretta, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, T. Guidi, J. Dyson, R. Caciuffo, J.A. Stride, A. Caneschi, and J.R.D. Copley, "Inelastic-neutron-scattering study of excited spin multiplets and low-energy phonons in the Fe8 nanomagnet: implications for relaxation", Phys. Rev. B 73, 144425 (2006).
  23. T. Masuda, A. Zheludev, H. Manaka, L.-P. Regnault, J.-H. Chung, and Y. Qiu, "Dynamics of composite Haldane spin chains in IPA-CuCl3", Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047210 (2006).
  24. V.O. Garlea, S.E. Nagler, J.L. Zarestky, C. Stassis, D. Vaknin, P. Kögerler, D.F. McMorrow, C. Niedermayer, D.A. Tennant, B. Lake, Y. Qiu, M. Exler, J.Schnack, and M. Luban, "Probing spin frustration in high-symmetry magnetic nanomolecules by inelastic neutron scattering", Phys. Rev. B. 73, 024414 (2006).
  25. A.P. Sokolov and R.B. Gregory, "Internal dynamics of proteins and DNA: analogy to glass-forming systems", in Neutron Scattering in Biology - Techniques and Applications, eds. J. Fitter, T. Gutberlet and J. Katsaras (Springer, Berlin, 2006), p. 485.
  26. D. Phelan, D. Louca, S. Rosenkranz, S.-H. Lee, Y. Qiu, P.J. Chupas, R. Osborn, H. Zheng, J.F. Mitchell, J.R.D. Copley, J.L. Sarrao and Y. Moritomo, "Nanomagnetic droplets and implications to orbital ordering in La1-xSrxCoO3", Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027201 (2006).
Published in 2005
  1. G. Shirane, G. Xu, and P.M. Gehring, "Dynamics and Structure of PMN and PZN", Ferroelectrics 321, 7 (2005).
  2. L. Liu, S.-H. Chen, A. Faraone, C.-W. Yen and C.-Y. Mou, "Pressure dependence of fragile-to-strong transition and a possible second critical point in supercooled confined water", Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 117802 (2005).
  3. S. Nakatsuji, Y. Nambu, H. Tonomura, O. Sakai, S. Jonas, C. Broholm, H. Tsunetsugu, Y. Qiu and Y. Maeno, "Spin disorder on a triangular lattice", Science 309, 1697 (2005).
  4. V. Garcia Sakai, J.K. Maranas, Z. Chowdhuri, I. Peral and J.R.D. Copley, "Miscible blend dynamics and the length scale of local compositions", J. Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, 43, 2914 (2005).
  5. M.J. Lewis, B.D. Gaulin, L. Filion, C. Kallin, A.J. Berlinsky, H.A. Dabkowska, Y. Qiu and J.R.D. Copley, "Ordering and spin waves in NaNiO2: a stacked quantum ferromagnet", Phys. Rev. B 72, 014408 (2005).
  6. D. Russo, R.K. Murarka, J.R.D. Copley and T. Head-Gordon, "Molecular view of water dynamics near model peptides", J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 12966 (2005).
  7. I. Peral, J.E. Curtis, B.C. Chakoumakos, and C.Y. Jones, "Structure and Dynamics of Propylene Oxide and Trimethylene Oxide Clathrate Hydrates", in "Neutron and X-Ray Scattering as Probes of Multiscale Phenomena", ed. S.R. Bhatia, P.G. Khalifah, D.J. Pochan and P.G. Radaelli, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 840 (Warrendale, Pa., 2005), paper Q2.1.
  8. G. Lelong, D.L. Price, A. Douy, S. Kline, J.W. Brady and M.-L. Saboungi, "Molecular dynamics of confined glucose solutions", J. Chem. Phys. 122, 164504 (2005).
  9. P. Santini, S. Carretta, G. Amoretti, T. Guidi, R. Caciuffo, A. Caneschi, D. Rovai, Y. Qiu and J.R.D. Copley, "Spin dynamics and tunneling of the Néel vector in the Fe10 magnetic wheel", Phys. Rev. B71, 184405 (2005).
  10. S. Nair, Z. Chowdhuri, I. Peral, D.A. Neumann, L.C. Dickinson, G. Tompsett, H.-K. Jeong and M. Tsapatsis, "Translational dynamics of water in a nanoporous layered silicate", Phys. Rev. B71, 104301 (2005).
  11. M. Kenzelmann, C.D. Batista, Y. Chen, C. Broholm, D.H. Reich, S. Park and Y. Qiu, "S=1/2 chain in a staggered field: High-energy bound-spinon state and the effects of a discrete lattice", Phys. Rev. B71, 094411 (2005).
Published in 2004
  1. S. Nair, R.M. Dimeo, D.A. Neumann, A.J. Horsewill and M. Tsapatsis, "Methyl rotational tunneling dynamics of p-xylene confined in a crystalline zeolite host", J. Chem. Phys. 121, 4810 (2004).
  2. E. Mamontov, "Dynamics of surface water in ZrO2 studied by quasielastic neutron scattering", J. Chem. Phys. 121, 9087 (2004).
  3. L. Liu, A. Faraone, C.-Y. Mou, P.-C. Shih and S.-H. Chen, "Slow dynamics of supercooled water confined in nanoporous silica materials", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 16, S5403 (2004).
  4. A. Faraone, L. Liu, C.-Y. Mou, C.-W. Yen and S.-H. Chen, "Fragile-to-strong liquid transition in deeply supercooled confined water", J. Chem. Phys. 121, 10843 (2004).
  5. D. Russo, R.K. Murarka, G. Hura, E. Verschell, J.R.D. Copley and T. Head-Gordon, "Evidence for anomalous hydration dynamics near a model hydrophobic peptide", J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 19885 (2004).
  6. B.D. Gaulin, S.H. Lee, S. Haravifard, J.P. Castellan, A.J. Berlinsky, H.A. Dabkowska, Y. Qiu and J.R.D. Copley, "High resolution study of spin excitations in the singlet ground state of SrCu2(BO3)2", Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 267202 (2004).
  7. E. Mamontov, T.J. Udovic, O. Isnard and J.J. Rush, "Neutron scattering study of hydrogen dynamics in Pr2Fe17H5", Phys. Rev. B 70, 214305 (2004).
  8. E.J. Kintzel, Jr., K.W. Herwig and I. Peral, "Structure and dynamics within monolayer organic films using neutron scattering", Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Composites/Nanoengineering ICCE-11, 361 (2004).
  9. T.J. Udovic, D.A. Neumann, J. Leao and C.M. Brown, "Origin and removal of spurious background peaks in vibrational spectra measured by filter-analyzer neutron spectrometers", Nucl. Instr. Meth. A517, 189 (2004).
  10. G. Xu, G. Shirane, J.R.D. Copley and P.M. Gehring, "A neutron elastic diffuse scattering study of Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3", Phys. Rev. B69, 064112 (2004).
  11. D. Russo, G. Hura and T. Head-Gordon, "Hydration dynamics near a model protein surface", Biophys. J. 86, 1852 (2004).
  12. C. Talon, L.J. Smith, J.W. Brady, B.A. Lewis, J.R.D. Copley, D.L. Price and M.-L. Saboungi, "Dynamics of water molecules in glucose solutions", J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 5120 (2004).
  13. C.A. Angell, L.-M. Wang, S. Mossa, Y. Yue and J.R.D. Copley, "Vibrational dynamics and thermodynamics, ideal glass transitions and folding transitions, in liquids and biopolymers", Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems, ed. M. Tokuyama and I. Oppenheim, AIP Conf. Proc. 708, 473 (2004).
  14. G. Caliskan, D. Mechtani, J.H. Roh, A. Kisliuk, A.P. Sokolov, S. Azzam, M.T. Cicerone, S. Lin-Gibson and I. Peral, "Protein and solvent dynamics: how strongly are they coupled?", J. Chem. Phys. 121, 1978 (2004).
  15. M. Kenzelmann, Y. Chen, C. Broholm, D.H. Reich, and Y. Qiu, "Bound spinons in an antiferromagnetic S=1/2 chain with a staggered field", Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 017204 (2004).
  16. C.Y. Jones and I. Peral, "Dynamics of Trimethylene Oxide in a Structure II Clathrate Hydrate" American Mineralogist 89, 1176 (2004).
  17. C.R. Wiebe, J.S. Gardner, S.-J. Kim, G.M. Luke, A.S. Wills, B.D. Gaulin, J.E. Greedan, I. Swainson, Y. Qiu and C.Y. Jones, "Magnetic ordering in the spin-ice candidate Ho2Ru2O7", Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 076403 (2004).
Published in 2003
  1. E. Fratini, S.-H. Chen and P. Baglioni, "Investigation of the temporal evolution of translational dynamics of water molecules in hydrated calcium aluminate pastes", J. Phys. Chem. B107, 10057 (2003).
  2. A.V. Skripov, J.C. Cook, T.J. Udovic, M.A. Gonzalez, R. Hempelmann and V.N. Kozhanov, "Quasielastic neutron scattering study of hydrogen motion in C15-type YMn2Hx", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15, 3555 (2003).
  3. O. Borodin, R. Douglas, G.D. Smith, F. Trouw and S. Petrucci, "MD simulations and experimental study of structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics of poly(ethylene oxide) and its oligomers", J. Phys. Chem. B 107, 6813 (2003).
  4. C.A. Angell, Y.-Z. Yue, L.-M. Wang, J.R.D. Copley, S. Borick and S. Mossa, "Potential energy, relaxation, vibrational dynamics and the boson peak, of hyperquenched glasses", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15, S1051-S1068 (2003).
  5. D.G. Narehood, J.V. Pearce, P.C. Eklund, P.E. Sokol, R.E. Lechner, J. Pieper, J.R.D. Copley and J.C. Cook. "Diffusion of H2 adsorbed on single walled carbon nanotubes", Phys. Rev. B67, 205409 (2003).
  6. A. Faraone, L. Liu, C.-Y. Mou, P.-C. Shih, J.R.D. Copley and S.-H. Chen, "Translational and rotational dynamics of water in mesoporous silica materials: MCM-41-S and MCM-48-S", J. Chem. Phys. 119, 3963 (2003).
  7. T.J. Sato, S.-H. Lee, T. Katsufuji, M. Masaki, S. Park, J.R.D. Copley and H. Takagi, "Unconventional spin fluctuations in the hexagonal antiferromagnet YMnO3", Phys. Rev. B 68, 014432 (2003).
  8. A. Zheludev, Z. Honda, C.L. Broholm, K. Katsumata, S.M. Shapiro, A. Kolezhuk, S. Park, and Y. Qiu, "Massive triplet excitations in a magnetized anisotropic Haldane spin chain", Phys. Rev. B 68, 134438 (2003).
  9. F. Trouw, O. Borodin, J.C. Cook, J.R.D. Copley and G.D. Smith, "Quasielastic neutron-scattering study of the local dynamics of poly(ethylene glycol) dimethyl ether in aqueous solution", J. Phys. Chem. B 107, 10446 (2003).
  10. A. Faraone, L. Liu, C.-Y. Mou, P.-C. Shih, C. Brown, J.R.D. Copley, R. Dimeo and S.-H. Chen, "Dynamics of supercooled water in mesoporous silica matrix MCM-48-S", Proceedings of Second Workshop on Dynamics in Confinement, European Physical Journal E12, S59 (2003).
  11. J.L. Manson, L.C. Chapon, H.N. Bordallo, R. Feyerherm, D.N. Argyriou and A. Loose, "Spin ordering in the mixed-ligand antiferromagnet Mn(dca)2(pyrazine)", J. Magn. Magn. Mat. 260, 462 (2003).
Published in 2002
  1. E. Fratini, S.-H. Chen, P. Baglioni, J.C. Cook and J.R.D. Copley, "Dynamic scaling of quasielastic neutron scattering spectra from interfacial water", Phys. Rev. E65, 010201 (2002).
  2. H.N. Bordallo, L.C. Chapon, J.C. Cook, J.R.D. Copley, E. Goremychkin, S. Kern, S.-H. Lee, T. Yildirim and J.L. Manson, "Spin excitations in 3D molecular magnets probed by neutron scattering", Applied Physics A74 (2002)[Suppl1], s634-s636.
  3. I.Y. Glagolenko, K.P. Carney, S. Kern, E.A. Goremychkin, T.J. Udovic, J.R.D. Copley and J.C. Cook, "Quantitative analysis of UH3 in U metal and UO2 matrices by neutron vibrational spectroscopy", Applied Physics A74 (2002)[Suppl1], s1397-s1399.
Published in 2001
  1. Z.M. Bu, J.C. Cook and D.J.E. Callaway, "Dynamic regimes and correlated structural dynamics in native and denatured alpha-lactalbumin", J. Mol. Biol. 312 (4): 865-873 (2001).


Papers about the DCS, and related topics.

Papers about the time-of-flight technique, with some examples
  1. J.R.D. Copley, "Neutron time-of-flight spectroscopy", NIST Internal report 6205 (1998).
  2. J.R.D. Copley and T.J. Udovic, "Neutron time-of-flight spectroscopy", J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. 98, 71 (1993).

Papers about the Disk Chopper Spectrometer at NIST
  1. J.R.D. Copley, "The Disk Chopper Spectrometer at NIST: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Proceedings of the 17th International Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources, published by Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-UR-3904, Vol. III, 974 (2006).
  2. J.C. Cook and J.R.D. Copley, "Simulations and measurements of the performance of a channeled neutron guide for a time-of-flight spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research", Rev. Sci. Instr. 75, 430 (2004).
  3. J.R.D. Copley and J.C. Cook, "The Disk Chopper Spectrometer at NIST: a new instrument for quasielastic neutron scattering studies", Chem. Phys. 292, 477 (2003).
  4. J.R.D. Copley, "The conceptual design of a disk chopper spectrometer", Proceedings of a Workshop on Methods for Neutron Scattering Instrumentation Design, R.P. Hjelm, Ed, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report No. 9609353, Berkeley, CA (1997).
  5. F.B. Altorfer, J.C. Cook and J.R.D. Copley, "The multiple disk chopper neutron time-of-flight spectrometer at NIST", Mat. Res. Soc. Sym. Proc. 376, 119 (1995).

Papers about chopper design.
  1. J.R.D. Copley, "An acceptance diagram analysis of the contaminant removal problem with direct geometry neutron chopper spectrometers", Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 510, 318 (2003).
  2. J.R.D. Copley, "A new time-of-flight spectrometer at NIST", Physica B 180 & 181, 914 (1992).
  3. J.R.D. Copley, "Transmission properties of a counter-rotating pair of disk choppers", Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 303, 332 (1990).
  4. J.R.D. Copley, "Optimized design of the chopper disks and the neutron guide in a disk chopper neutron time-of-flight spectrometer", Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 291, 519 (1990).

A paper about oscillating radial collimators
  1. J.R.D. Copley and J.C. Cook, "An analysis of the effectiveness of oscillating radial collimators in neutron scattering applications", Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 345, 313 (1994).

Papers about the transmission properties of guides and optical filters, and a somewhat more general paper about acceptance diagrams
  1. J.R.D. Copley and J.C. Cook, "The optical filter of the disk chopper spectrometer at NIST", Physica B 283, 386 (2000)
  2. J.R.D. Copley, "Transmission properties of neutron optical filters", J. Neut. Res. 2, 95 (1994).
  3. J.R.D. Copley, "The joy of acceptance diagrams", J. Neut. Res. 1, 21 (1993).
  4. J.R.D. Copley, "An analytical method to characterize the performance of multiple section straight-sided neutron guide systems", Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 287, 363 (1990).

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