What do we need from the data to help us determined if there can be Oxygen in the Earth’s outer core?
What do we want?
- “Accurate” Unit-cell volumes to obtain equations of state (EOS)
When to we want it?
- Now!! (not 6 months to 5 years later!)
- (far better if synchrotron beamlines offer analysis software so that problems can be defined and analysis performed in near real time)
Collecting small to large amounts of diffraction data with the intention of analysing it later is a effective way of getting low productivity out of synchrotron and neutron sources.