MERLIN, a new high count rate spectrometer at ISIS
Creators
- 1. ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)
- 2. Sheffield Hallam University, Materials Research Institute, Howard Street, Sheffield (United Kingdom)
- 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (United Kingdom)
- 4. H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol (United Kingdom)
- 5. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Description
MERLIN is designed to be a high intensity, medium energy resolution spectrometer. As such, it will complement the high-resolution MAPS spectrometer at ISIS. MERLIN will utilise all the latest advances in technology with a supermirror guide to enhance flux as well as 3 m long position-sensitive detectors in a vacuum making it ideal for single-crystal users. The detector bank will cover a massive π steradians of solid angle with an angular range from -45o to +135o degrees in the horizontal plane and ±30o degrees in the vertical plane. This will allow large swathes of Q,ω space to be accessed in a single run. The instrument will be ready for commissioning in February 2006. This paper presents details of design and performance of this new instrument
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physb.2006.05.328;
- PII
- S0921-4526(06)01233-6;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physica. B, Condensed Matter
- Journal Volume
- 385-386
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1029-1031
- ISSN
- 0921-4526
- CODEN
- PHYBE3
Conference
- Title
- 8. international conference on neutron scattering
- Dates
- 27 Nov - 2 Dec 2005
- Place
- Sydney (Australia)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38070876
- Subject category
- S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COMMISSIONING; COUNTING RATES; DESIGN; ENERGY RESOLUTION; MAPS; MONOCRYSTALS; NEUTRON SPECTROMETERS; NEUTRONS; PERFORMANCE; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS; STRUCTURAL CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYONS; CRYSTALS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; HADRONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEONS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RESOLUTION; SPECTROMETERS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.