Bragg Peaks January 2009
OPAL news
OPAL and its cold-neutron source have continued to run well, with an availability of 80% in the last cycle. The current reactor cycle (number 12) started on 26 January 2009 with the next shutdown scheduled for 22 February 2009. more …
Around the instruments
We obtained operating licences for the cold-neutron instruments Platypus and Quokka; more…
- Taipan: first scans; more…
- Wombat: first overseas users; smallest sample; more …
- Platypus: free-liquid experiments; more…
- Quokka: data from opal; more …
- Kowari: residual stress in very thick steel pipe intersection; more…
- Koala: ordering and dynamic properties of ZnCN2; more…
- X-ray instruments: new SAXS; more…
- Helium-3: contract for provision of polarised 3He system signed; more …
- Pelican: engineering design finished; more …
Announcements
- Statistics on last proposal round for 5 instruments - Echidna, Koala, Kowari, Platypus and Wombat: 105 proposals accepted allocating 363 days of beam time; more…
- Successful NOBUGS conference 3-5 November 2008; more…
Faces
Departure: Andrew Whitten leaves and was awarded a prestigious NHMRC Australian Biomedical Fellowship; more…
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