Agendas and Logistics

Tue 09/10/2007
Welcome	R. McGreevy
	Overview of the project J. Bellingham (PDF, 0.328 MB) Management • Annual report approved for approval • No more formal reporting till Jun ‘08 • However, raw costs to be submitted in Dec online to see if we can redistribute the budget. Are we meeting goals? • YES! • Mid term review - good to excellent • Days given in the access programme will far exceed our contracted number of days • However, if any JRA’s will not meet goals we need to know. Access • Total days delivered • Before FP7 starts there will be a gap, access will be run at own cost. Meetings • The next meeting will be the last: May/June 2008	See here the NMI3 Report Period 2 (protected area)
JRA 1	JRA1 - (DETNI) - Detectors for Neutron Instrumentation - Burckhard Gebauer (PDF, 8MB) • For the three novel detector types (Gd/Si MSD, Gd/CsI MSGC, CASCADE) developed in DETNI prototypes are close to readiness for testing. • The two types of novel ASICs and the full chain of readout boards, firmware and software developed in DETNI are ready for detector testing, • Testing will fill the year 2008.	More information JRA1
JRA 2	JRA2 - (MILAND) Millimetre Resolution Large Area Neutron Detector Bruno Guerard (PDF, 1.119 MB) The main task of MILAND is to provide a detector with a MHz counting rate capability, a mm spatial resolution and limited parallax error. A 32 mm x 32 mm Multi Wires Proportional Chamber is in construction. Its wire pitch of 1 mm and gas pressure of 15 bars are unequalled for a detector of that size. Measured performances are in good agreement with the specifications. The detector will be mounted on the D16 instrument in 2008 for evaluation and routine experiments. In parallel to the MWPC development, Anger type prototypes, combining GSPC (Gas Scintillation Proportional Chambers) and Photomultipliers Tubes have been studied. Preliminary tests on a neutron beam line demonstrated the feasability of a large area detectors based on this technique with mm spatial resolution.	JRA2
JRA 3	JRA3 - (NO) - Neutron Optics and Phase Space Transformers Thomas Kris (PDF, 3.802 MB) Tasks 1-3 (1.Honeycomb, multibeam, solid state devices; 2. Focusing devices; 3. Diffuse Scattering) are completed to above 95%, task 4 will reach 90% in May 2008 A multi beam prototype for a small angle instrument was set up with gain factors of 11 in point geometry and of 50 in slit geometry. A solid state neutron lens has been built and tested which reaches a gain factor of above 5 in a focal spot with a FWHM of 2.4mm. A multilayer monochromator was realized with virtually no 2nd and 3rd order. It was shown that a thin Cr layer reduces the roughness of the substrate. It was verified that the introduction of two multi-hole apertures into a SANS machine can improve the resolution of a SANS machine. For the phase space transformer crystals have been tested and a rotor is ordered, tests will be performed at ILL in April 2008.	JRA3
ENSA summary report on meeting	ENSA Peter Allenspach (PDF, 0.777 MB) • Greece becomes the 17th member of the European Neutron Scattering Association. • The ENSA survey will be published by the European Science Foundation ESF in December 2007. • ENSA Work packages • Debriefing ECNS07: 700 participants, almost balanced budget, only 100 publications. • The next European Conference on Neutron Scattering , ECNS ’11, will be held in Prague on July 17- 21 Closed Session: • New ENSA statutes establish that the chairman can be elected from outside the association. • Weight of votes: proposal to group the member states into band considering the number of users. • Election of a : Antonio Deriu (Italy) and Ad Van Well (Netherlands) • The next ENSA Meeting will be held on April 21-22nd 2008 at Delft.	Have a look to the summary of the 28th ENSA meeting
ESS Preparatory phase	The European Spallation Source - Preparatory Phase Peter Allenspach (PDF, 0.531 MB) EU made on 22 December 2006 a call for Preparatory works on projects listed in the ESFRI Roadmap, with deadline 2 May 2007. One proposal on ESS was submitted by the neutron community. The project will start on January 1, 2008. Deliverables: List of site characteristics, Positive presence in the scientific arean (press conferences, web), meeting with industry, analysis of the ESS decommissioning cost and more!
NMI3 in FP7	NMI3 in FP7 R. McGreevy and Helmut Schober • General Overview & deadlines for calls for proposals FP7 Started in December • Budgets in FP7 - Budgets will have an average of 10Meuro and a maximum of 17Meuro. Wise to request a realistic budget. - Funding will be the same per year upgraded for inflation- but with more competition. The number of I3’s has increased but the budget available has not, new ideas are needed. • Proposals - I3 call deadline is 1st Feb, the call for proposal is November. - There will be 2 more calls, Spring ’10 (2nd half FP6) & Spring ’12, this is a top up call and requires a separate proposal it is targeted at those successful I3’s. - First round of proposals will be for 4 years, with potential for a 2 year extension. Plan for three years work with time either side to meet deadline. • Proposed budget distribution 25Meuro was proposed, 21Meuro was agreed. 64% Access 26% JRA’s 10% Management & Networking Helmut Schober will be the coordinator fo the project. Robert McGreevy will lead the Networking activities. Potential Joint Research activities: - Optics - Ott (LLB) - Detectors (zeitelhack) Muons (Cottrell ISIS) Polarised Neutrons (Ioffe - FRM II) Deuteration (Forsyth - ILL) Sample environment (Bowden ILL)
Wed 10/10/2007
Dissemination	NMI3 information service Ana Claver (PDF 1.560 MB) • The NMI3 mailing list has now almost 600 people from 26 countries. (Mainly from Universities, Neutron centers and research centers). • News online: covering news, articles reviews, conferences, interviews...what's happening in the neutron world. • Calendar of events for 2008 and 2009 now online. • The Common Picture gallery: a neutron and muon photo repository for all the facilities involved in the NMi3 project: more than 100 pictures now online. • A dissemination plan for the NMI3/FP7 project	... Please review your personal data on the NMi3 online system Sketching ideas for a NMI3/FP7 dissemination plan: Education & Outreach room, RSS news feeds, Podcasts ... Please send us your ideas! Calendar of events: ... Please send info about next year events!
Networking activities	Networking activities Helmut Schober (PDF, 0.320 MB) • Financial support granted in 2007: 132.600 € for 13 Workshops, 9 Schools and 4 Foresight studies. • NMI3 – Online Proposal Reporting System. 57% of the activities were qualified as "excelent" and 30% as very good. 94% of the activities met the expectations	More about Training Activities
International Society for µSR SpectroscopyI	ISMS summary report on meeting Philip King (PDF, 0.669 MB) • The next µSR 2008: 11th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation, and Resonance July 21-25, 2008, Tsukuba, Japan. • Prizes; - ISMS Toshimitsu Yamazaki Prize for µSR Science for outstanding, sustained work in µSR science with long-term impact on scientific and/or technical µSR applications. - ISMS Young Researcher Awards given to students or first-time postdoc based on papers submitted to the µSR08 Conference. • Status report from ISIS: New, 5T instrument being built – operation at start of 2009 • Status report from PSI: Instrument refurbishment. Designing high-field instrument • The Workshop on Future Developments of European Muon Sources: 36 attendees, 9 countries, 18 institutions. Articles in Neutron News and Physics World. Report submitted to NMI3 • Follow-up workshop on development of FFAG accelerators for muons, to be held in early 2008, funded by NMI3. • Future muon training schools: ISIS training course in April 2008.	More about the International Society for µSR Spectroscopy See more information about the Workshop on Future Developments of European Muon Sources
JRA4	(NSF) - 3He neutron spin filters - Eddy Lelievre-Berna (PDF, 1.139 MB) • Production of polarised 3He gas ILL and ISIS have built spin-exchange optical-pumping facilities exploiting frequency-narrowed diode-array bars. The maximum polarisation, which was only 30% at the beginning of the project, now reaches 70 to 75%. On-beam pumping will be tested on instruments before the end of the contract. The metastability-exchange optical-pumping stations have been improved and the maximum polarisation reached in static mode is nearly 85%. For scheduled experiments, this means 90% neutron polarisation and 32% total transmission. For on-line optical pumping, simulations show that a pulse method is preferable to a continuous one. • Polarised 3He containers A very fruitful collaboration with NIST and SNS has greatly contributed to the production of long relaxation cells in Europe. • Magnetostatic cavities A number of compact magnetostatic cavities are being delivered to several facilities. They feature very long relaxation times and 3He spin flipping control (replace neutron flippers). After the successful test of the PASTIS coils, ILL is preparing a 2nd-generation magnetostatic cavity exempt of pillars for PSD detectors and a new cavity able to host spin filter cells in large stray fields. At HMI, an novel experiment has been performed on the SANS spectrometer V4: thanks to the fast relaxation of the 3He polarisation, people have measured spin-flip and non-spin-flip cross section without the need for a secondary flipper.	JRA4
JRA 5	(PNT) - Polarised Neutron Techniques Alexander Ioffe Partners from HMI and ILL started first ever attempt to realize the polarimetric neutron spin-echo by combining the wide-angle NSE spectrometer SPAN with neutron polarimeter CRYOPAD, that will allow for measurements of quasi-elastic processes in the off-diagonal elements of the neutron scattering tensor. •Polarized neutron difractometer “Super-6T2” at LLB achieved new horizons. Due to the a new polarizer and a position-sensitive detector, an enormous efficiency gain was achieved that allows for experiments with tiny samples till 0.05 mm3. • A new bootstrap coils for neutron resonance spin-echo spectrometers.have been developed. These coils feature a larger neutron window, currently (12 x 15) cm2, so that they can be used for tilt angles up to 70° and can operate with 50 meV energy neutrons. They considerably overcome the present-day limitations of 45° and 20 meV and open possibilities for measurements of the line width at steeper dispersion curves and higher energy excitations. • A new NSE technique with rotating magnetic fields has been successfully tested and demonstrated a potential for medium-resolution applications. • A new approach to the spin flip of nonmonochromatic beams – the moving domain wall that allows to control the length of magnetic domains have been developed. • The 2nd Polarized Neutron School was held in Berlin in September 2006 and gathered more than 30 participants, who got a possibility not only to listen to lectures given by experienced neutron scientists, but also to carry out their own hand-on experiments at polarized neutron instruments at the HMI.	JRA5
JRA 6	(MCNSI) - Monte Carlo simulation of Neutron Scattering Instrumentation Kim Lefmann (PDF, 0,900MB) NMI3 has made the whole diference! - Real collaboration and focus. - Lifting simulation packagesfrom "in progress" to well-tested products. - General recognition of simulations as one of thenecessary tools in neutron science.	Visit the MCNSI pages
JRA7	(D-LAB) - Deuterium Labelling Trevor Forsyth (PDF, MB)	JRA7
JRA 8	MUON-S - Muon Spectroscopy Philip King (PDF, 1.546 MB) Detectors - Testing of Avalance Photo Diodes for muon detectors - Demonstration of technology feasibility for a full muon detector array - Construction and use of a position-sensitive beam profile monitor using APDs - Detector array at PSI now being built using APDs - first muon spectrometer ever not to use photomultiplier tubes Simulation - Package constructed for muon instrument simulation based on GEANT4 - Code has been tested for incoming muons and outgoing positrons - Real instruments are being designed using the code, including the new high field spectrometer at ISIS and the new detector array at PSI Advanced techniques - Simultaneous AC susceptibility measurements now possible - Radio-frequency µSR development - multi-pulse excitation, decoupling, circularly polarised RF - RF studies up to 1500K, and on liquid and gaseous samples - New techniques used for proton conductor studies and modeling hydrogen in semiconductors - Microwave µSR development - proof-of-principle experiments performed A variety of publications and reports have come from the Muon JRA in FP6 Collaboration between ISIS, PSI and university partners has been very good Similar benefits will be expected from the Muon JRA in FP7.	JRA8
Ancient Charm	Ancient Charm project Carla Andreani (PDF, 1.118 MB) • The aim of the project: to provide a new, comprehensive neutron-based imaging approach, which will be applied for the 3D imaging of elemental and phase composition of objects selected as a result of a broad scope archaeological research. • Interdisciplinary team of expertise in neutron instrumentation and archaeology. • Highlights: Prompt Gamma Activation Imaging combined with Neutron Tomography. The Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis New analytical software programs	Ancient Charm