Time‐of‐flight measurements of pulsed neutrons and 2d detectors for texture analysis of deformed polycrystals

A method is described to measure deformation textures in polycrystals by time‐of‐flight of thermal neutrons with a 2d position sensitive detector. The procedure is illustrated for a standard sample of deformed calcite limestone and results from the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center and the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source at Argonne National Laboratory are compared with those from more conventional neutron diffraction experiments.