[Neutron] Call for proposals for measuring time at the GeesthachtNeutron

As a specialty of the Geesthacht Neutron Facility (GeNF) at GKSS, proposals can be submitted at any time and are reviewed continuously to provide fast and flexible access to our neutron facility for external users. In order to optimise the beamtime allocation in the upcoming period we would like to ask interested users to submit proposals (see http://genf.gkss.de, proposal form available as Word or PDF-file) until

March 31st, 2008

by email to genf@gkss.de

GeNF offers travel support through the EU program "ACCESS to research infrastructures" to EU users from outside Germany. If you are interested, please tick the corresponding box in the proposal form. Users, who are not eligible to the EU ACCESS program (e.g. users from German universities) can apply for travel support from GeNF if they have no alternative funds.

The GeNF instruments are listed below. Further details are available at

http://genf.gkss.de

For general questions please contact: genf@gkss.de

We hope to see you at GeNF for some exciting science!

Best Regards

The Team of GeNF

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Diffractometers

ARES-2 (peter.staron@gkss.de)
Diffractometer to Analyse Residual Stresses in specimens with technical sizes (up to 200 kg) using thermal nonpolarised neutrons.

TEX-2 (brokmeier@gkss.de)
Four circle neutron TEXture diffractometer to characterise textures in metallic, ceramic and geologic materials using thermal nonpolarised neutrons.

Small Angle Neutron Scattering

SANS-1 (vasyl.haramus@gkss.de)
Used primarily for structure investigations of 'soft matter' such as biological macromolecules, colloids, micro emulsions and polymers, optional is the use of polarised neutrons.

SANS-2 (melissa.sharp@gkss.de, helmut.eckerlebe@gkss.de)
Mainly used for the characterisation of precipitates, clusters, interfaces, grain sizes, magnetic structures etc. in (engineering) materials, polarised neutrons are optional.

DCD (melissa.sharp@gkss.de)
Ultra small angle scattering experiment using cold non-polarised neutrons to characterise large structures up to sizes of several micrometers, like creep, fatigue and sintering cavities, voids, bubbles, etc. in materials, as well as studying colloidal and polymer systems.

Reflectometers

PNR (danica.solina@gkss.de)
Polarised Neutron Reflectometer to study magnetic and other surfaces, layers, thin films and membranes using cold nonpolarised/polarised neutrons at high fluxes.

NeRo (dieter.lott@gkss.de)
NEutron ReflectOmeter to study surfaces, layers, thin films and membranes using cold nonpolarised neutrons at high resolution. A polarisation option including an analyser for diffuse scattering is also available.

Imaging

GENRA-3 (pranzas@gkss.de)
GEesthacht Neutron RAdiography facility for non-destructive analysis of materials by static and dynamic imaging as well as by neutron tomography.

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Dr. P. Klaus Pranzas
GKSS Research Centre
Member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
Institute of Materials Research
Max-Planck-Strasse 1
D-21502 Geesthacht

Tel: +49 (0)4152 87 1326
Fax: +49 (0)4152 87 4 1326
http://genf.gkss.de
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[Neutron] Call for proposals for measuring time at the GeesthachtNeutron Facility (GeNF)