Answer to Question #102616 in Atomic and Nuclear Physics for BIVEK SAH

Question

What are the advantages of the neutron diffraction method?

Answer 1

The advantages of the neutron diffraction method are given below.

1. The major advantage of the neutron diffraction over the x ray diffraction is that the latter can be insensitive in the presence of the H in a structure but the nuclei $H_1^1 and H_2^2$ show the strong scattering for neutron.
2. The length of the neutron scattering vary with the atomic number and it is independent of the momentum transfer.
3. Neutron interact through the nuclear interaction.
4. In the neutron scattering, the scattering nuclei are the the point particles.