23.11.2014 Views

Ph.D. thesis (pdf) - dirac

Ph.D. thesis (pdf) - dirac

Ph.D. thesis (pdf) - dirac

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

4.3. Inelastic Scattering Experiments 51<br />

the polarization are in phase. Fatuzzo and Mason [1967] propose a solution to this<br />

situation.<br />

The most important problem with the conversion from microscopic polarizability to<br />

macroscopic susceptibility can already be anticipated from equation 4.2.6, namely<br />

that the two are not proportional. This has the consequence that the frequency<br />

dependence of characteristic time of α(ω) will not be the same as the characteristic<br />

time of χ(ω). Moreover, this difference will systematically depend on the strength of<br />

the dielectric relaxation, meaning that it will have a different consequence depending<br />

on the size of the molecular dipole moment. However, the differences are still smaller<br />

than the type of differences which are always found depending on which experimental<br />

probe one uses to study the liquid [Daz-Calleja et al., 1993; Niss and Jakobsen,<br />

2003]. In this work we shall not attempt to extract microscopic information from<br />

the dielectric relaxation, rather we follow the convention of taking the macroscopic<br />

dielectric relaxation time as a signature of the structural alpha relaxation.<br />

4.3 Inelastic Scattering Experiments<br />

Neutron and X-ray scattering have several common features and we therefore introduce<br />

them at the same time. We start from neutron scattering and generalize to<br />

X-ray scattering by comments at relevant places. 4<br />

We start by describing the principle of an inelastic scattering experiment and continue<br />

by discussing some practical limitations, regarding the energy and Q-domain<br />

that can be accessed by different probes. We subsequently give some general results<br />

which we shall later use in the analysis of our data. More technical information on<br />

the experimental methods is given in the relevant chapters.<br />

4.3.1 The basic principle<br />

The basic principle inelastic scattering experiment is to let an incoming beam of<br />

probe with a well defined energy and wave vector hit a sample and to measure the<br />

wave vector and energy of the scattered beam. The difference in momentum and<br />

energy between the incoming and the out coming beam has been lost to (or gained<br />

from) the sample. This exchange of energy and momentum will in the limit where the<br />

interaction between the probe and the sample is weak only depend on the properties<br />

of the sample (linear response). The property which is measured is called the cross<br />

4 Standard references for neutron scattering are [Lovesey, 1984; Squires, 1978], while inelastic<br />

X-ray scattering, is relatively new technique which is not yet treated in text books.

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!