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14/12/06	CCLRC COUNCIL ENDORSES RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY AS A SITE FOR A EUROPEAN NEUTRON SOURCE Friday 08 December 2006: CCLRC Council endorses Rutherford Appleton Laboratory as a site for a European Neutron Source "At its Council meeting on 7 December 2006, the CCLRC endorsed UK plans to host the next generation of neutron scattering facilities. This takes forwards the conclusion of the UK Neutron Strategy produced by the CCLRC and builds on the recently established ESFRI roadmap for European Science." Press release LORD SAINSBURY'S RESPONSE TO THE UK NEUTRON REVIEW Friday 08 December 2006: Lord Sainsbury's response to the UK neutron review. Press Release	@ CCLRC
11/12/06	McStas: A NEUTRON RAY-TRACE SIMULATION PACKAGE - NEW SOFTWARE OUT NOW! From McStas team: Peter Willendrup (Risø) - Emmanuel Farhi (ILL) - Kim Lefmann (Risø) The McStas developer team is happy to report that the 1.10 release of our software is finally out. You can get the installer package from McStas pages Among other things, the new release includes * Much improved support for polarisation * A new optimisation feature * New components * A complete .exe installer for Win32 systems, including all needed support software Thanks to Peter Christiansen for his work on polarisation and to the complete list of component contributors. Project funding During its lifetime, McStas efforts at Risø have been supported through several European Union RTD and JRA programmes: XENNI RTD (FP4) February 1st 1996 - January 31st 2000 Cool Neutrons RTD (FP4) May 1st 1998 - April 30th 2001 SCANS RTD (FP5) March 1st 2000 - February 29th 2004 MCNSI JRA in NMI3 (FP6) January 1st 2004 - January 1st 2008.	Click and see the capabilities of McStas.
07/12/06	THE MID-TERM REVIEW OF NMI3 HAS PLACED THE PROJECT IN THE ‘GOOD TO EXCELLENT’ CATEGORY From Robert McGreevy (NMI3 Coordinator) Division Head: Instrumentation, Diffraction and Muons ISIS Facility,Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The Mid-Term review of NMI3 has placed the project in the ‘good to excellent’ category (the highest category possible) and has confirmed that we are achieving all of our objectives. Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved. Our thanks also go to Elena Righi-Steele and Stefano Fontana who have been the Project Officers in Brussels, they have also made a tremendous contribution to the success of our project.
22/11/06	SPAIN AND FRANCE ENDORSE ESS From Peter Allenspach - ENSA Chairman On Nov. 16 presidents Zapatero (Spain) and Chirac (France) met for a bilateral summit in Gerone and made commitments towards collaborations in academic and science activity issues. As part of this they reached an agreement according to which they recognize the high-priority character of a European Spallation Source (ESS). France expressed their interest for the project to host the ESS in Bilbao. The commitment encompasses the creation of a work group which should define subjects of common interest (know-how, structure, design, construction) and that will define possible formulas of collaboration. See the text of the press release (in Spanish): La Moncloa - Nota de prensa More information: The ESS- Bilbao Consortium representing the Spanish candidature to host the European Spallation Source in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
20/11/06	LAST 2006 ISSUE OF NEUTRON NEWS OUT NOW! In this issue: • Editorial: Joël Mesot. Reaching out. Why do non-neutron users carry this image of neutron scattering being an old and non-innovative technique? • The report of the most relevant neutron meetings: - Student gain experience at HMI tutorial: ... attended by thirty external student and young postdoctoral scientists... - Millennium symposium meets again: ... a document called "Perspectives and Opportunities for ILL"... - SFN holds its annual meeting: .... The 14th Journées de la Diffusion Neutronique was held in Murol... - SINQ User's meeting held at PSI: ... increasing number of presentations showed results that were obtained not only by neutron scattering experiments but also in combination with complementary experiments ... - QUENS holds its eight meeting in U.S.: The eighth International Conference on Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering was held form 14 - 17 June, 2006 in the university town of Bloomington, Indiana, USA... - ACNS 2006 hosted by IPNS: a highlight of the conference was the Clifford Shull Award presentation to Jack Carpenter for his pioneering work and leadership in the development of pulsed spallation neutron sources • Correspondent's Report: Indonesia: Neutron Scattering Facilities in Serpong. ... Siwabessy, the largest research reactor in Indonesia, located in Serpong, 30km southwest of Jakarta.. yearly there are more than 170 days of neutron beams in Serpong • Scientific Reviews: - Triple Axis Spectrometer at Serpong: Current Status. - Neutron Radiography Facility in Serpong. - Residual Stress Measurements at HANARO. • News and Reports Read more in the October issue of the Neutron News! The back page of the magazine announces the Neutron Pathfinder: the guide to neutrons in Europe. A project developed by NMI3, the Integrated Infrastructure Initiative for Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy and KFN, the German Committee Research with Neutrons, in collaboration with the main European neutron facilities. Other Neutron Magazines Neutron Magazines Section	Neutron News is a controlled circulation magazine, supplied free of charge to officials with registered neutron sources. Subcriptions: Neutron News
19/11/06	THE EUROPEAN SPALLATION SOURCE ON THE BBC NEWS. BBC NEWS - UK Threat to £1bn science park plans The UK government has said it will not support plans to build a £1bn hi-tech science park in North Yorkshire. It will only support proposals for major new facilities at established science campuses in Cheshire and Oxfordshire. Read the article on the BBC Pages Realted press articles: Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK York Press - York,UK York Press - York,UK
27/10/06	A SWEDISH ROADMAP FOR RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES Press Release The Swedish Research Council. The Swedish Research Council´s Guide to Infrastructure, with a perspective of 10-20 years, is Sweden´s first long-term plan for research infrastructure. The emphasis is on field overviews in which research infrastructure, both present and planned, is placed in its context. The report presents various recommendations, identifying appropriate infrastructure projects of great importance to future research. Certain fields in which further investigation is needed are also pinpointed. A summary of the key conclusions from the report is available in English" More information: Swedish Research Council. News on Cordis pages
20/10/06	THE EUROPEAN ROADMAP FOR RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES PRESENTED ON 19 OCTOBER AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN BRUSSELS European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. - ESFRI Extracted from European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures "ESFRI agreed in autumn 2006 on a first list of 35 mature proposals for new (or major upgrade of) facilities of pan-European interest covering seven key research areas including Environmental Sciences; Energy; Materials Sciences; Astrophysics, Astronomy, Particle and Nuclear Physics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Social Sciences and the Humanities; Computation and data Treatment. The resulting European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures has been presented on 19 October 2006 at a press conference in Brussels." The Roadmap identify 35 projects for new scale Research Infrastructures considered as "crucial pillars to strengthen the European Research Area". The European Spallation Source for producing neutrons is in this list. Report available on the ESFRI pages Material Science on page 24. List of individual 35 projects on page 29. ESS-Initiative Press Release, related to this news, published on the ESSI Website
20/10/06	NEW CHAIRMAN FOR THE EUROPEAN NEUTRON SCATTERING ASSOCIATION. Peter Allenspach was elected as the new chair in the 25th meeting of the ENSA Committee held in Taormina on 10th October. Peter Allenspach is currently head of the "Laboratory for Developments and Methods" at PSI. Beside this since 2004 he is the President of the Swiss Society for Neutron Scattering. Hannu Mutka continues as vice-chair and Kell Mortensen as secretary until the ENSA meeting in June,2007. ENSA delegates should until then consider candidates for the two post in the executive board. ENSA is now a legal entity according to Swiss law. Antonio Deriu and Laszlo Rosta were elected as auditors." More about the new chairman on the : ENSA Website	Chairman & ex-Chairman of ENSA
18/10/06	NMI3 SIXTH ROUND FOR PROPOSALS EVALUATED - 38.000 € FOR TRAINING ACTIVITIES The 9 proposals submitted to the sixth NMI3 Round for Proposals have been evaluated at the NMI3 meeting on 11 October in Taormina. The Committee proposes the assignation of a total of 24.000 € to support 3 Neutrons Workshops and 22.000 € for the 4 proposals for Neutron Schools. Schools: • 28th Tutorial on Neutron Scattering, 26 February - 2 March 2007 - Berlin, Germany. • 4th Central European Training School on Neutron Scattering, 23-28 April 2007 - Budapest, Hungary. • School on Pulsed Neutrons: Characterization of Materials, 15 - 26 October 2007 -Trieste - Italy. Workshops: • 4th European Conference on Neutron Scattering, 25-29 June 2007 - Lund, Sweden. • NOP07, European Workshop on Neutron Optics, 5-7 March 2007 - Villigen PSI, Switzerland. • Advanced Laue Diffraction in Frontier Science, 23-27 January 2007 - Grenoble, France. • Proteins in action. Neutron scattering as a tool to study biomolecules in working conditions, 6-8 June 2007 - Perugia, Italy. Visit the Calendar of events 2007
2/10/06	NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY OF NEUTRON TECHNIQUES Javier Campo, scientist of the "Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón“, has been elected chairman of the Spanish Society of Neutron Techniques: a new chairman affording a new phase when Spain is increasing the activity in the use of neutrons. The chairman was elected at the III Meeting of the Spanish Society of Neutron Techniques hold from the 10th to 13th of September 2006 in Jaca. In the meeting the representative from the Spanish Education Minister, responsible for Large Scale Facilities, announced the signature of a Consortium between the Central Government and the Basque Country to prepare the Spanish site proposal to host the ESS facility. The International Summer School on Neutron Techniques in Molecular Magnetism took place also at Jaca on these days with the participation of 22 students from 6 different countries (Croatia, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK) and 20 teachers. More information about the new chairman on the Universidad de Zaragoza Pages. Information about the School available here:magmanet.unizar.es
22/08/06	SINQ-MEGAPIE HAS STARTED USER OPERATION WITH THE FIRST MEGA WATT CLASS LIQUID METAL TARGET On the 21st of August 2006 the PSI neutron user program started after an extended shut down, in which a new liquid metal target, the MEGAPIE target, was installed. PSI is thereby the first facility World-wide to operate in user mode with a high power liquid metal target. Our first measurements indicate that the estimated gain in neutron flux of 40 % was conservative. See the details about the start-up of Megapie or on the Megapie homepage Reported by Dr Kurt Nørgaard Clausen, Head of Research Department - Condensed Matter Research with Neutrons and Muons, Paul Scherrer Institut
20/07/06	NEW ISSUE OF NOTIZIARIO NEUTRONI E LUCE DI SINCROTRONE IS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE! The Notiziario is now available online and you can download individual articles or the full magazine. Notiziario Editorial (SNS Up and Spalling), scientific reviews, reports, meeting reports, calendar and call for proposals and news. You can read it online and download it. Those of you wishing to receive the printed version of the journal are invited to subscribe at the Notiziario website. Subscription is free! NOTIZIARIO Neutroni e Luce di Sincrotrone è pubblicato a cura del C.N.R. in collaborazione con la Facoltà di Scienze M.F.N. e il Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”G. Other Neutron Magazines Neutron Magazines Section	Cover photo: Laboratory scientists, engineers, instrument scientists and others at the first neutrons produced on Friday, April 29, 2006 at the Spallation Neutron Source.
09/07/06	SECOND 2006 ISSUE OF NEUTRON NEWS In this issue: • Editorial: Rob Robinson and Brendan Kennedy report about the eighth International Conference on Neutron Scattering "The World of Neutrons Comes to Sydney": 750 neutron scatterers from 38 countries in six continents... • The report of the most relevant neutron meetings: - NESE - Symposium on Neutrons at the Frontier of Earth Sciences and Environment held in Vienna in April 2005, organized by NMI3 (Europe) in close collaboration with SNS (U.S.) and KEK (Japan). - CONTENT - Time is rigth for Time of Flight! hosted at ILL from June 30 July 2, 2005. - CONtinuous source Time-of-flight, Evolution, Novelties and Targets for future. Interesting point of views on the workshop of Thomas Brückel (FZ- Juelich, Germany), Ruep Lechner (Berlin, Germany) Robert McGreevy (ISIS facility) and Ferei Mezei (HMI, Berlin). - The third NMI3 Meeting held at ISIS in September 2005 at RAL: over 200 participants gathered to swap ideas about neutron science and hear from the joint research activities detailing the progress of European researchers' developments. - Oxford hosts Ninth School on Neutron Scattering. September 2005, Masfield College Oxford: Some 47 students attended the school.... students from the U.K., other European countries, U.S. and South Africa, the school was certainly international character. - First Autumn School focuses on "Engineering Material Science with Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation, Germany - October 2005. ... providing a systematic overview of this field to students from all over Europe. - SNS - HIFR User Meeting brings hundreds to Oak Ridge: almost 240 current and future users of the Spallation neutron Source and the High Flux Isotope REactor met at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on October 2005 .... - Dutch and Belgian Neutron Users meet in Delft : October 2005 two workshops were-organized at the Delft University of Technology in collaboration with the Dutch association for neutron scattering ... - ICNS 2005: The World of Neutron comes to Sidney. • Scientific Reviews: Neutron Polarization Analysis Corrections Made Easy 3He Spin Filter at the Institute Laue-Langevin: Polarization Analysis of Diffuse Scattering Quantum State of Neutrons in Magnetic Thin Films and Superlattices • News and Reports: Robert Sague Carter: RSC retired director of NBS (now NIST) Research Center passed away on October 20, 2005 ... one of the pioneers in the development and broad research use of large research reactors ... SNS Approaches Completion by Al Ekkebus (SNS): ... the first call for the formal user program is expected to be in the second half of 2007, with experiments scheduled for early 2008	Read about this in the April issue of the Neutron News (Volume 17, issue 2 - April/May/June 2006) The back page of the magazine announces the Workshop Workshop on Future Developments of European Muon Sources that will take place at the The Cosener’s House, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK. Other Neutron Magazines Neutron Magazines Section
07/07/06	SUPERMAN CAN'T SEE THROUGH LEAD WITH HIS X-RAY VISION, BUT IF HE COULD SEE WITH NEUTRONS HE'D DO BETTER... Read the interesting article "Neutron vision" a FOCUS story published on Physical Review Focus - American Physical Society (APS) 2 June 2006 Authors: David Lindley The article summarize the scientific paper published in Physical Review Letters "Neutron Phase Imaging and Tomography". F. Pfeiffer, C. Grünzweig, O. Bunk, G. Frei, E. Lehmann, and C. David, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 215505 Full article: Neutron Vision	F. Pfeiffer, PSI
22/05/06	IN HONOUR OF ERWIN FÉLIX LEWY-BERTAUT. A MEMORIAL DAY IN GRENOBLE In Honour Of Erwin Félix Lewy-Bertaut. A Memorial Day In Grenoble – 12 May 2006 At this occasion the European Crystallography Association and ENSA proposed to create a prize for commemorating the career of M. Bertaut in x-ray and neutron crystallography. This prize will be distributed in European Conferences organised by the two associations, more details to be published. In honour of Erwin Félix Lewy-Bertaut (PDF 1.695 MB)
02/05/06	FRJ-2 RESEARCH REACTOR SHUT DOWN On Tuesday 02 May at 08:30, an era was brought to a close. In the presence of numerous members of staff, guests and representatives of the regulatory authority, reactor operator Detlev Gottwald pushed the red button to permanently shut down the FRJ-2 research reactor, also known as "DIDO". After almost 44 years or 15,875 days of operation, the neutron source that was for a long time the most powerful in Germany has thus been extinguished. But the Jülich neutron research activity will continue. The Jülich scientists will operate eight of their own instruments in the new research station at FRM-II. More information on the Forschungszentrum Jülich pages	Picture and text courtesy of Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
01/05/06	YILDIRIM AND TRANQUADA WINNERS OF THE 2006 NEUTRON SCATTERING SOCIETY OF AMERICA PRIZES. The Neutron Scattering Society of America- Press Release May 1, 2006 Dr. John Tranquada is the recipient of the 2006 Sustained Research Prize of the Neutron Scattering Society of America with the citation: “For his outstanding neutron scattering studies of the charge and spin ordering in the high Tc cuprates and related materials”. Dr. Taner Yildirim is the recipient of the 2006 Science Prize with the citation: “For his innovative coupling of first principles theory with neutron scattering to solve critical problems in materials science”. The prize will be awarded at the 2006 ACNS, St. Charles, IL, June 18-22, 2006. More information on the NSSA pages
28/04/06	SNS BEAM ON TARGET! The Spallation Neutron Source - Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S. April 28, 2006 "It is with great pleasure that I can report that we have accomplished beam on target this afternoon at 2:08 p.m.! You can view the image on our target view screen at SNS pages Reported by Thom Mason - Associate Laboratory Director for the Spallation Neutron Source More information: First neutrons produced by DOE's Spallation Neutron Source. News Release - Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Links to other news on this topic: Google Some words of congratulations... on the SNS front page Information about SNS on this site: Section Neutrons for the future
26/04/06	NMI3 FIFTH ROUND FOR PROPOSALS EVALUATED - 57.000 € FOR TRAINING ACTIVITIES The 14 proposals submitted to the Fifth NMI3 Round for Proposals have been evaluated. The Committee proposes the assignation of a total of 25000 € to support 4 Neutrons Workshops, 31.000 € for 5 Neutron Schools and 1000 for a Technology transfer proposal. Schools • 5th PSI Summer School on Condensed Matter Research: Neutron, X-ray and Muon Studies of Nanoscale Structures - Lyceum Alpinum - Zuoz, Switzerland. (19-26 Aug 2006). • Neutron Techniques in Molecular Magnetism - Jaca (Huesca) SPAIN (31 Aug - 9 Sept 2006. • Reverse Monte Carlo Tutorial and Conference - Hotel Normafa, Budapest, Hungary. (26-30 Sept 2006 • VIII International School Of Neutron Scattering“Francesco Paolo Ricci” Neutron Scattering From Magnetic Systems - Hotel Flamingo - Santa Margherita di Pula (Sardegna), Italy (25 Sept - 6 Oct 2006) • PNCMI School - Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin. Berlin, Germany (19-22 Sept 2006). Workshops: • Polarised Neutrons in Condensed Matter Investigations - Leibniz-Saal, Berlin Brandenburg Academie of Sciences (25-28 Sept 2006) • International Workshop on Applications of Advanced Monte Carlo Simulations in Neutron Scattering - Laboratory for Developments and Methods. Paul Scherrer Institut Villigen PSI. (3-6 Oct 2006). • The 3rd workshop on Inelastic Neutron Spectrometers 2006 - SpreePalais am Dom, Berlin/Germany. (29-30 Sept 2006). • Dynamics of Molecules and Materials - Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France (13-15 Dec 2006).
24/04/06	FUTURE ACCESS TO NEUTRON FACILITIES: A STRATEGY FOR THE UK - NOW AVAILABLE ON-LINE Published by the CCLRC The CCLRC (Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils) was commissioned by the UK Minister for Science and Innovation to produce a strategy for ensuring continued access for the UK research community to world-class neutron facilities. The Final Report is now available on the UK Neutron Strategy Website (CCLRC) Future access to neutron sources: A strategy for the UK Appendix 1: The consultation process Appendix 2: The science case Appendix 3: The technology roadmap Appendix 4: Complementarity of neutrons and other probes of matter Appendix 5: The UK neutron community
23/04/06	THE SNS PROJECT IS 98% COMPLETE THROUGH FEBRUARY 2006 Source: SNS - Spallation Neutron Source Progress, April 2006 Strong safety performance continues as the project has worked in excess of 7.7 million hours, with only 2 lost work day (away) cases through February 2006. On April 7, we closed out the final Accelerator Readiness Review that assessed our readiness to put the beam on target, commission the complete facility with beam, and operate up to 100kW of power. There are a few minor pre-start actions to complete (mainly procedural), however the overarching message from the review committee is that we are ready to go! Our plan is to put beam on target and make the CD4 commissioning measurements in a couple of weeks. Instruments · The Backscattering Spectrometer had a successful Instrument Readiness Review on March 24. The instrument is essentially complete and ready to operate. · Installation of the personnel protection system is nearing completion for the reflectometers. The Liquids Reflectometer Chemical Laboratory is nearing completion. · Roof sections and shield blocks are being installed for the Magnetism and Liquids Reflectometers. · Sample environment equipment inventory is being increased. Target · Target Systems are operational. · The installation of the permanent roof for the remote handling control room is complete. Accelerator · Installation of the remaining Ring-to-Target components is complete. The complete accelerator system is being operated to the extraction dump in readiness for the beam on target. Project and Site Support · The build-out of the CLO auditorium continues. · Parking lots and roads near the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences are being prepared for paving.
23/03/06	CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE WOLFRAM-PRANDL-PRICE FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS IN NEUTRON RESEARCH Source: KFN The Committee Research with Neutrons (KFN) will award the Wolfram-Prandl-Price for young scientists with PhD. The price is awarded for excellent work, which is based mainly on on investigations with neutrons. Deadline: May 31st 2006. Details: KFN Website.
(23/03/06	JANUARY ISSUE 2006 OF NOTIZIARIO NEUTRONI E LUCE DI SINCROTRONE IS NOW AVAILABLE! ) 48 full color illustrated pages containing: • The editorial: Research infrastructures for cultural heritage: a roadmap in the making. • Two scientific reviews: - Ines - Italian Neutron Experimental Station Final Installation And Preliminary Tests. -Overview of Imaging with X-Rays and Neutrons. • A report about Infrastructures: - BENSC Neutron for “Cultural Heritage” Research: Neutron Autoradiography of Paintings. • News: - The Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ: instrumental capabilities, In-house research, International User facility. - ESRF Users’ Meeting 2006: on 7 and 8 February 2006... dedicated to a discussion of options for a Long Term Strategy for the facility. Users are warmly encouraged to contribute with their views on new and emerging areas, techniques and instrumentation. - News from ILL: Welcome to Hungary !! undertakes to accede to full scientific membership of ILL by not later than October 2007, probably as partner of a consortium with other Central European countries.... -SNS Nears Completion: ... The project is in the seventh year of a seven-year construction phase, with facility operations scheduled to begin in 2006. ...To date, 17 instruments have been assigned beamlines.... working with the European Community to chart new research opportunities through NMI3... • Meeting Reports: - New high-throughput crystallization facility at EMBL-Hamburg: The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has established a new high-throughput crystallization facility at its Outstation located on the campus of the German Synchrotron Radiation Facility (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany.... The facility has the capacity to generate 10,000 crystallization experiments in an 8 hour working day .... • Calendar and Call for Proposals.	Nicolas Poussin, "Armida abducts the sleeping Rinaldo", 1st neutron autoradiography assembled from 12 image plate records: In order to investigate the whole picture, two separated irradiations were carried out and finally recomposed. You can read it online Those of you wishing to receive the printed version of the journal are invited to subscribe at the Notiziario website. Subscription is free! NOTIZIARIO Neutroni e Luce di Sincrotrone è pubblicato a cura del C.N.R. in collaborazione con la Facoltà di Scienze M.F.N. e il Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”G. Other Neutron Magazines Neutron Magazines Section
23/03/06	FIRST 2006 ISSUE OF NEUTRON NEWS OUT NOW! • Meeting reports: - The Second Chinese workshop focuses on Applications of Spallation Neutron Sources. - Students Fill Summer Days with Intensive X-ray and Neutron School. - Neutron scattering Workshop held in Serpong. - Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Groups |Meet. - New Technique discussed at Spin-Echo Meeting - The NIST Center for Neutron Research honors Mike Rowe and Jack Rush - Laboratory Course on Neutron Scattering held at Forschungszentrum Jülich. • Scientific reviews: - The CASCADE Neutron detector: A system for 2D Position Sensitive Neutron Detection - Status and Future Development of Neutron Scintillation Detectors. - Detectors for Neutron Imaging - Using Neutron Imaging Methods for Non Invasive Investigations of Museum Objects Read about this in the January issue of the Neutron News. Other Neutron Magazines Neutron Magazines Section	Neutron News is a controlled circulation magazine, supplied free of charge to officials with registered neutron sources. Subcriptions: Neutron News The back page of the magazine announces the NMI3 project
16/03/06	NMI3 WELCOMES KOREA AS AN OBSERVER Korea has been formally invited to become an observer to the NMI3 project. Mr. Chang-Hee Lee, leader of neutron physics group at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), will act as a Korean representative for this collaboration. With the integration of Korea NMI3 have four non-European observer countries. USA, Japan and China are the other three participating in NMI3 activities.
13/02/06	MILESTONE IN JÜLICH'S NEUTRON RESEARCH - JÜLICH CENTRE FOR NEUTRON SCIENCE IS INAUGURATED IN THE PRESENCE OF STATE SECRETARY THOMAS RACHEL FROM THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH Jülich, 13 February 2006 – February 16 represents a milestone in the history of Jülich neutron research: this date marks the foundation of the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science. This centre – known as JCNS for short – will focus activities in Jülich and at external neutron sources and will establish a branch lab at the new research reactor in Garching. Scientists from all over the world were coming to Jülich for the inauguration of the JCNS. Thomas Rachel, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), described the cooperation between Research Centre Jülich and Munich University of Technology as ground-breaking. "Science in Germany will profit from the close cooperation between university and nonuniversity research." The BMBF is providing funds of about € 6 million annually for the new centre, plus about € 18 million for investments in physical resources during the development phase. Neutrons are electrically neutral building blocks of atomic nuclei. Neutron beams are generated in research reactors or spallation sources. Then in special devices, so-called "diffractometers" and "spectrometers", they are guided onto the samples to be investigated. These neutron beams "bounce off" the atoms and molecules of the samples and in doing so they may change their direction and speed. The nature of this "scattering" provides information on the arrangement and motion of the atoms in the sample. As small elementary magnets, neutrons can also help to determine the distribution of the magnetic field within a sample. Knowledge on the atomic and molecular structure of a material is the basis for tailoring materials with certain desirable properties. Neutrons also enable particularly sensitive material analyses to be performed, for example the detection of trace substances in environmental research. Prof. Dr Joachim Treusch, chairman of the Board of Directors of Research Centre Jülich, commented that: "Modern science would be unimaginable without neutrons – from basic research up to application-oriented research in the material sciences, biology or medicine." Since November 1962, Jülich has operated the DIDO-type FRJ-2 research reactor for its wide range of research tasks. Due to its high neutron flux and it unique instrumentation, the FRJ-2 is used by numerous German and international scientists from a wide range of disciplines. The FRJ-2 will be finally shut down at the end of April. As an intensive user of this neutron source, the Jülich Institute of Solid State Research has therefore already been planning a reorientation of its work for some time. Prof. Dieter Richter, Director at the Institute of Solid State Research, describes the turning point as follows: "Behind us we have 44 successful years operating the Jülich reactor. This period led to nicely valuable research findings as well as application-oriented products such as additives for diesel fuel or surfactants with improved detergent power. Our future is to be found in work at external neutron sources, namely at the new FRM II research reactor in Garching, the spallation neutron source in Oak Ridge (Tennessee, USA), and at the very high flux reactor in Grenoble, France." The work of the Jülich neutron researchers concentrates on so-called "soft matter" and on magnetism. For these purposes, the scientists have at their disposal state-of-the-art instruments and methods which they will further develop. The Jülich Centre for Neutron Science will therefore establish a branch lab at the new Munich research reactor FRM-II. A total staff of about 30 (scientists, engineers, technicians, administrative employees) will work in a building constructed especially for this purpose on the site of one of the most advanced neutron sources worldwide. The Jülich scientists will operate eight of their own instruments in the new research station at FRM-II. These instruments, with a total value of € 45 million, will be transferred to Munich from Jülich after DIDO is finally shut down. Furthermore, in cooperation with their French colleagues the Jülich neutron researchers are operating neutron instruments at the very high flux reactor of the Institut Max von Laue - Paul Langevin in Grenoble. The next generation of so-called "spin echo spectrometers" will be built by JCNS at the spallation neutron source in Oak Ridge that is currently under construction, where JCNS will also run an outstation.	A memorandum of agreement on the construction of a "spin echo spectrometer" by JCNS at the spallation neutron source currently under construction in Oak Ridge, was signed at the conference by (from left to right) Prof. Joachim Treusch, Prof. Thomas Mason (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Prof. Richard Wagner Picture and text courtesy of Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH