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Software collaborations

• ARP/wARP
• FiberNet
• Mantid
• SasView

Simulation aids

Model scattering functions

• NCNR tools on the web for planning SANS experiments
• Simulations and Animations in SAS

Instrument simulation packages

• McStas: Monte Carlo simulation of neutron scattering instruments
• VITESS: Virtual Instrumentation Tool for neutron scattering at pulsed and continuous sources
• LANSCE Neutron Instrument Simulation Package (PDF)
• Ray-tracing X-rays

Data treatment

Methodology

• SAXS data tratment at SLAC
• NCNR - SANS data analysis with IGOR Pro
• NCNR SANS data analysis tutorial (PDF)

Summaries of SAS data treatment suites

• Data-fitting Programs (R.K.Heenan, ISIS)
• PRINSAS process and interpret SAS data (PDF)
• TRAC site for NIST-NCNR SANS Software
• SANS Software in the DANSE Project

Also see http://www.smallangles.net/wgwiki/index.php/canSAS_Working_Groups

Educational resources

• The NIST SANS Tutorials
• Introduction to SANS
• The SANS Toolbox (current PDF version) The SANS Toolbox (local PDF)
• SAXS Beginners guides

Polymer science interactive demonstrations

• Tensile testing of semicrystallne polymers
• Wide-angle x-ray diffraction of semicrystalline polymers
• DTA and DSC for semicrystalline polymers
• Effect of size distribution of wide-angle x-ray peak broadening

Data formats

• SASXML
• Web form for converting 3-column ASCII CSV (eg, Q, I(Q), Ierror) data into SASXML
• ILL-SANS Treated data formats
• LOQ Data Formats
• sasCIF - Archive format for SAS data (M. Malfois, D Svergun)

Facilities

Synchrotron X-ray facilities

• Beamline I22 at Diamond
• Beamline 2.1 at the Daresbury Laboratory (no longer operational) 
• Beamline 6.2 at the Daresbury Laboratory (no longer operational) 
• Beamline ID01 at the ESRF, Grenoble
• Beamline ID02 at the ESRF, Grenoble
• Beamline BM02 at the ESRF (D2AM)
• Beamline ID10A at the ESRF (TROIKA)
• Beamline ID13 at the ESRF, Grenoble
• Beamline BM26 at the ESRF, Grenoble (DUBBLE)
• XOR facilities at the APS, Argonne (1-BM, 1-ID)
• DND facilities at the APS, Argonne (5-BM, 5-ID)
• IMMY/XOR facilities at the APS, Argonne (8-ID)
• CMC facilities at the APS, Argonne (9-ID)
• BESSRC XOR facilities at the APS, Argonne (12-BM, 12-ID)
• ChemMat CARS facilities at the APS, Argonne (15-ID)
• Biocat facilities at the APS, Argonne (18-ID) 
• UNICAT facilities at the APS, Argonne (33-ID)
• Beamline 1-4 at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
• Beamline 4-2 at Stanford Synchroton Radiation Laboratory
• AP-PRT at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• BL40XU High Flux beamline at Spring 8
• BL45XU-A SAXS station at Spring 8

Neutron facilities

• The World Directory of SANS Instruments
• Instrument LOQ at ISIS
• Instrument SANS2D at ISIS
• Instrument GEM at ISIS
• Instrument SXD at ISIS
• Instrument D11 at Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble
• Instrument D19 at Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble
• Instrument D22 at Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble
• Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)
• Instrument SANS1 at HIFR
• Instrument Bio-SANS at HIFR
• Instrument TOF-USANS at SNS
• Instrument EQ-SANS at SNS
• Instrument NG3 at NIST, USA
• Instrument NG7 at NIST, USA
• Instrument BT5 at NIST, USA
• Instrument PCS at Los Alamos, New Mexico
• Instrument LQD at Los Alamos, New Mexico
• Instrument Quokka at OPAL 

General small angle scattering links

• IUCR Commission on Small-Angle Scattering
• Small-Angle Scattering Email Listserver

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