NCrystal : A library for thermal neutron transport in crystals and other materials

Copyright 2015-2023 NCrystal developers

This software was mainly developed at the European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS)
and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). This work was supported in part
by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under
grant agreement No 676548 (the BrightnESS project) and 951782 (the HighNESS
project).

All NCrystal files are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, available at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0, as well as in the LICENSE file found
in the NCrystal distribution.

A very substantial effort went into developing NCrystal. If you use it for your
work, we would appreciate it if you would use the following primary reference in
your work:

  X.-X. Cai and T. Kittelmann, NCrystal: A library for thermal neutron
  transport, Computer Physics Communications 246 (2020) 106851,
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2019.07.015

For work benefitting from elastic physics (e.g. Bragg diffraction), we
furthermore request that you additionally also use the following reference in
your work:

  T. Kittelmann and X.-X. Cai, Elastic neutron scattering models
  for NCrystal, Computer Physics Communications 267 (2021) 108082,
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2021.108082

For work benefitting from our inelastic physics, we furthermore request that you
additionally also use the following reference in your work:

  X.-X. Cai, T. Kittelmann, et. al., "Rejection-based sampling of inelastic
  neutron scattering", Journal of Computational Physics 380 (2019) 400-407,
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2018.11.043
