Guinier expansion of a polymer scattering function
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Expand the isotropic angular factor as . For a polymer scattering function and finite fourth pair moments, the constant double sum gives , and the quadratic sum is determined by the radius of gyration:In the range , this is also approximated by . The coefficient follows from isotropy and the definition of and does not require a Gaussian chain.
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