LARMOR

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 installation.

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 instruments like OffSpec.

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 users what the possibilities are for this instrument.

A pdf of the poster can be found here; LARMOR synew poster

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). First tutorial was given by G. Blake (University of Groningen)  on diffraction (diffraction) and the second was on SANS and SESANS (SANS/SESANS) by S. Rogers from ISIS (UK). If you press the corresponding links you are able to view the PDF version of the tutorials. If you have any question concerning these presentation please contact me (j.plomp@tudelft.nl)

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) SANS                             Sarah Rogers

14:40-15:00   Coffee / tea

15:00-15:45   Progress Larmor project ISIS                            Robert Dalgliesh

15:45-16:30   Progress Larmor project Delft                  Jeroen Plomp

16:30-17:00   Discussion                                            Katia Pappas

17:00-18:00   Drinks

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 bench is also on site but waiting for the granite floor to be installed on the black supports.

Pitures are made by Nick Webb and published with his permission.

pre-sample bench already installed!