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Fig .15 .6 displays the elastic intensity observed for PIB as a function of Q . The data were<br />

corrected for multiple scattering and fitted with Eq .[15 .5] . This elastic incoherent structure<br />

factor (EISF) (see lecture Quasielastic <strong>Scattering</strong>) reveals a jump distance d = 2.7A . For<br />

comparison the solid lines display the prediction for methyl group rotation, which was<br />

invoked by NMR spectroscopy . Obviously the neutron data point into the direction ofa larger<br />

motional amplitude .<br />

The squares in Fig . 15 .4 display the neutron results for the /3 time scale . Within a factor of 2<br />

they agree with the dielectric spectroscopy results . Since the underlying process has an<br />

amplitude of 2.7A and is also dielectrically active, it cannot be understood as due to a<br />

methylgroup rotation alone . A possible interpretation is a combined backbone and methyl<br />

motion which is also supported by simulation results .<br />

We now turn to the a-relaxation and ask, whether the sub linear diffusion argument is<br />

supported by quasielastic neutron scattering. Fig. 15 .7 displays Kohlrausch-William-Watts<br />

relaxation rates obtained for four different polymers, polyvinylether (PVE) at 340K,<br />

polyisobutylene (PIB) at 365K, polybutadiene (PB) at 280K and polyisoprene (PI) at 340K.<br />

PVE<br />

40K<br />

u<br />

0.2 0 .4 0.6 0 .8 1 pI<br />

340K<br />

Figure 15 .7 : (zrWW)f for 4 different polymers as a function of Q. The solid lines display a<br />

Q' power law .<br />

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