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Observables</A>
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The physical observable of interest in any scattering experiment is [1-3] the differential cross section
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as a function of direction <IMG
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To measure that directly we should operate with zero-width point detectors, with instant measurement and unit incident intensity.
Practically
the quantity we can actually measure - putting a detector in a position covering a certain
solid angle for a certain time with a certain incident intensity - is
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If <IMG
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are small and known and <IMG
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is separately monitored,
we can (have to) normalize the observations by simply dividing them out.
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Specifically for the powder diffraction field, historically, this is not usually done because
- as it is normally true with anode sources and point detectors and usual procedures -
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are considered
constant and therefore go into some 'global scaling' constant that is usually considered arbitrary.
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However, as we have more sophisticated acquisition methods,
we may need revert to the original approach and consider the
counts divided by time and angular width as the real observable.
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