cannot be decomposed if only NSE is employed. However, in pure cases, i.e. when there is an overwhelming intensity contribution due to protons, NSE can be used to measure their incoherent spectrum.

The intensity situation of NSE--for e.g. soft-matter samples--is the same as in small angle neutron scattering (SANS). Molecular objects with coherent scattering contrast at low momentum transfer (''Q'') show coherent scattering at considerably