Author Archives: Jeroen Plomp

Installation of the Delft equipment on the LARMOR instrument at ISIS needs to be plug and play. To be sure this will be a smooth installation we have now the exact same tables. With this we can even practice the … Continue reading →

Yesterday we received very good news from the UK. The first neutrons have been detected by the LARMOR instrument!!!!!!! Click this link to read the official news on the ISIS website!

Today we visited the company Schelde Exotech situated in Vlissingen (NED). This company produced the vessel that will be used in the SANS mode. Today the leak rate test is performed and it will be shipped to ISIS soon for … Continue reading →

For the very up to date information on the progress of LARMOR in the UK one can now go to twitter!!! Twitter on LARMOR This is made by ISIS, how cool is that! It is also available for some other … Continue reading →

Last week we visited the SYNEW 2013 – SYnchrotron and NEutron Workshop in Antwerpen. This workshop brings Dutch and Belgian synchrotron and Neutron users together. We presented a poster on the Dutch contribution to LARMOR to inform our new potential … Continue reading →

During the LARMOR meeting in Groningen two very clear overview tutorials were presented by experts in the field. The topics were chosen to be in line with the first modes that will be available on the LARMOR instrument (SANS/SESANS/Larmor diffraction). … Continue reading →

LARMOR meeting Date:            June 19, 2013 Place:           Congres- en vergadercentrum Het Kasteel Melkweg 1, Groningen (www.hetkasteel.com) Tentative programme: 12:00-13:00   Lunch 13:00-13:10   Welcome                                             Ad van Well 13:10-13:55   Tutorial on neutron (Larmor) diffraction     Graeme Blake 13:55-14:40   Tutorial on (spin echo) … Continue reading →

This entertaining talk by Wim Bouwman, where he explains the SESANS technique, is given to a general public on the 50th anniversary of our Delft Reactor operation. You can view this talk by pressing on this link.

We recently had another meeting in Delft with ISIS on the progress of the LARMOR project. Installation has really started now in the LARMOR blockhouse as these pictures show. You can see the pre-sample bench already installed. The post smaple … Continue reading →

Here finally a picture of the plastic magnet installed on the second bench of LARMOR, all scaled 1:4 of course.           We will now print another magnet assembly to complete the table. This way we can … Continue reading →