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Spin-echo small-angle scattering (SESANS) technique is a method to measure the structure of materials from nano- to micrmeter length scales. This method could be important for studying the packaging of DNA in the eukaryotic cell. We measured the SESANS function from chicken erythrocyte nuclei which is well fitted by the exponential function G(z) = exp(-z/ξ), where ξ is the correlation length of a nucleus (in experimental data ξ = 3, 3 μm). The exponential decay of G(z) corresponds to the logarithmic pair correlation function γ(r) = ln(ξ/r). As the sensitivity of the SESANS signal depends on the neutron wavelength, we propose the SESANS setup with the changeable wavelength in the range from 2 to 12 Å. Such option allows one to study in great detail the internal structure of the biological cell in the length scale from 10-2 μm to 10 μm.

Язык оригиналаанглийский
Номер статьи012010
ЖурналJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Том862
Номер выпуска1
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - 20 июн 2017
Событие11th International Conference on Polarised Neutrons for Condensed Matter Investigations, PNCMI 2016 - Munich, Freising, Германия
Продолжительность: 4 июл 20167 июл 2016

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