Goals and tasks

The goals and tasks of this paper are

• To teach you about the most basic neutron scattering
• To let you understand some of the typical components in a neutron scattering instrument
• To teach you basic usage of the McStas neutron simulation package
• To let you create your first McStas instruments, a two axis diffractometer and a triple axis spectrometer
• To teach you how to modify your instrument for a specific task
• To help you learn to debug instruments
• To help you aquire and analyze data from McStas simulations