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Technical Information - Taipan

Technical Information - Taipan

Specifications

Angular ranges 
  • 15° < 2θM< 85°
  • -145° < 2θs< 115°
  • -110°< 2θA< 110°
     
Monochromator    
  • 200 mm x 200 mm in 9 x 11 segments (width x height) 
  • Continuous horizontal and vertical focussing 
  • Pyrolytic Graphite (002) 24' mosaic with Incident Energy Range: ~ 5 - 60 meV) 
  • Copper (200) 20' mosaic with Incident Energy Range: ~ 14 - 160 meV)
Sample area    
  • Beam size at monochromator shielding exit 50mm x 130 mm (W x H) 
  • Flux at sample position is measured to be 1.8x108 ncm2s-1 at 50 meV
Analyser
  • 160 mm x 140 mm in 5 x 7 segments (width x height) 
  • Continuous horizontal and vertical focusing 
  • Pyrolytic Graphite (002) 24' mosaic

Soller collimators
  • Pre-monochromator collimators 15', 30', Open; 90 x 185 mm2 (W x H) 
  • Post-monochromator, pre-analyser and pre-detector, collimators: 20', 40', Open; 50 x 130 mm2 (WxH)

Detector    
  • 3He detector, (diameter)25mm x 100 mm, p=10 bars 
  • Or (diameter)50mm x 100 mm, p=5 bars
Polarisation analysis
  • 3He polarisers before and after the sample
  • Polarisation modes: P||Q and P Perp Q

Users Manual

 

Instrument reference for publications

Rule, KC; Darmann, F; Oste, T; Bartlett, D; Franceschini, F; Berry, A; McGregor, A; Ogrin, A; Ersez, T; Kafes, A; Pangelis, S; Danilkin, S; Stampfl, APJ and Olsen, SR, Recent enhancements and performance gains from upgrades to ANSTO’s thermal neutron instrument TAIPAN and the triple-axis and Be-filter spectrometers, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A 901, 140-149(2018) DOI