Development of spin-contrast-variation neutron powder diffractometry for extracting the structure factor of hydrogen atoms

Miura, Daisuke*; Kumada, Takayuki   ; Sekine, Yurina   ; Oku, Takayuki   ; Takata, Shinichi  ; Hiroi, Kosuke  ; Iwata, Takahiro*

We carried out spin contrast variation neutron powder diffractometry of glutamic acid crystal. The diffraction peak intensities varied as a function of proton polarization. We extracted the structure factor of hydrogen atoms from the variation of peak intensities.