Hybrid Spectrometer (HYSPEC)
Hybrid Spectrometer
HYSPEC, an acronym for Hybrid Spectrometer, is a unique instrument whose concept combines advantages of the time-of-flight (TOF) technique which is traditionally used at the pulsed sources with those of crystal spectrometers which use continuous neutron beams. It was developed as a collaborative effort of the Instrument Development Team (IDT) composed of scientists from the leading US universities and national laboratories and an international group of prominent neutron scattering experts, aimed at designing and building a conceptually new high-flux inelastic neutron spectrometer at SNS.
HYSPEC is optimized for studying the single-crystal samples in a broad variety of sample environments and is intended to supply users of SNS and the scientific community with a platform for ground-breaking investigations of the low-energy atomic-scale dynamical properties of crystalline solids. This instrument is equipped with a polarization analysis capability, therefore becoming the first polarized beam spectrometer in the SNS instrument suite, and the first successful polarized beam inelastic instrument at a pulsed spallation source in the world.
