Ph.D. thesis (pdf) - dirac
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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.