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Synchrotron Radiation, Neutron, and Mass Spectrometry Techniques at User Facilities

¹ Department of Geophysical Sciences and Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
E-mail: sutton{at}cars.uchicago.edu
² Department of Physics and PRIME Laboratory, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN 47907-2036, USA
E-mail: mcaffee{at}physics.purdue.edu
³ Department of Earth Science and National Institute for Environmental eScience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK
E-mail: martin{at}esc.cam.ac.uk

User research facilities around the world offer tremendous opportunities for scientific experimentation by members of the Earth science community. Synchrotron radiation sources, neutron sources, mass spectrometers, and others represent a powerful force in tackling complex scientific problems. In these techniques, Earth materials are bombarded with beams of ions, subatomic particles and/or photons to learn the secrets of their properties and histories. Some of these methods can be applied to nanoscale materials with "desktop" instruments while others require macroscopic samples and utilize large-scale devices residing in multiple buildings; and there is everything in between.

KEYWORDS: synchrotron radiation, neutrons, mass spectrometry, user facilities, analytical techniques

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