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| November 2 2010 |
80 Guests at JCNS Workshop 2010 | |
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80 Scientists from all over the world attended the recent JCNS Workshop 2010 "Trends and Perspectives
in Neutron Scattering: Magnetism and Correlated Electron Systems" in the small village of Bernried at
Lake Starnberg in the vicinity of Munich. The workshop led to intense and fruitful discussions upon
the participants. Invited presentations were given in the field of frustrated magnets, quantum and
low dimensional magnetism, magneto-calorics, pnictides, multiferroics and heavy fermions by leading
experts. |
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| October 15 2010 |
First neutrons on BIODIFF | |
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Another new instrument at the FRM II: The monochromatic single crystal diffractometer BioDiff has received
the first neutrons last week. The instrument in the neutron guide hall west is operated in a cooperation
between the neutron source FRM II and the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS). The first beam on October
4th hit a protein crystal of myoglobin, to test the capability of the instrument BioDiff. The result is
promising. Further testing was performed with a powder of yttrium-iron garnet.
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| October 15 2010 |
MARIA starts user operation | |
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MARIA, the new new high flux polarised neutron reflectometer of JCNS at FRM II has entered
the full user operation starting March 2011. The commissioning of the instrument is in
progress and the capability of the instrument has been demonstrated successfully by in-house experiments
in recent months to obtain unique data. |
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| August 17 2010 |
POWGEN starts user operation | |
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POWGEN, the new ToF neutron powder diffractometer at SNS (ORNL) is about to enter
the full user operation starting January 2011. JCNS contributes to the operation
of the SNS owned POWGEN instrument. The commissioning of the instrument is in
progress and the capability of the instrument even partially finished is sufficient
to obtain unique data. POWGEN will part of the next JCNS call for proposals
on Oct. 8 2010 where German affilitated users can apply for beam time on this call.
We encourage everyone to submit proposals. |
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| April 29 2010 |
The JCNS school on data analysis for QENS using the program FRIDA succesful finished. | |
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About 20 participants from various universities and research centers in Europe attended the
recent JCNS school on data analysis organised by Joachim Wuttke, first instrument
scientist at the backscattering spectrometer SPHERES at JCNS at FRMM II. The highly motivated
participants were introduced into the basic concepts of quasi-elastic and inelastic neutron
scattering and worked on data reduction and analysis with the program package SLAW and FRIDA.
Problems and improvements of the programes were discussed and all partcipants enjoyed the
fruitful and encouraging atmosphere of this school, which was organized the first time at
JCNS. |
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| Feb. 23 2010 |
Neutron polarization analysis reveal spin correlations in Sr2CrO3FeAs | |
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A group of scientists of the Department of Chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Munich and the Jülich Center of Neutron Science have revealed evidence of certain spin
correlations in the strontium chromate iron arsenide compound by polarised neutron
diffraction. The work has been published in a recent issue of Europhysics Letters,
Vol 89, 37006 (2010). |
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| Dec. 21 2009 |
World class 80% 3He polarization | |
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The in-situ 3He polarizer, based on the spin-exchange optical pumping method,
reached this high level of 3He polarization in a recent test performed on the
TREFF reflectometer. |
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| Dec. 18 2009 |
First neutrons on MARIA | |
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MARIA, the MAgnetic Reflectometer with high Incident Angle
has received its first neutrons today, Dec. 18. 2009. |
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| July 28 2009 |
Teaching SANS remote controlled | |
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The recent German-Russian Travelling Summer School 2009 used the
opportunity to follow on-line a SANS experiment performed at the JCNS
instrument KWS-2 at the German neutron facility "Forschungs-Neutronenquelle
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)" in Garching. |
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| Nov. 2 2008 |
Michael Prager | |
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Dr. Michael Prager has suddenly passed away on Sunday, November 2, 2008. |
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