[Neutron] Call for Proposals by the Geesthacht Neutron Facility

[Andreas.Schreyer at gkss.de]

Dear Colleagues, 

with this email we would like to inform you of the 

Call for Proposals by the Geesthacht Neutron Facility 

(GeNF, http://genf.gkss.de). 

As a specialty of GeNF, proposals can be submitted at any time and are 
reviewed continuously to provide fast and flexible access to our neutron 
facility for external users. 

Nevertheless, 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) until 

September 1st, 2005 

at the latest by email to genf at gkss.de

Our latest novelty is the Neutron Reflectometer NeRo which is now open to 
external users.
Please check 
http://www.gkss.de/pages.php?page=w_abt_genesys_nero.html&language=d&version=g

Please note that our neutron source will run for another 100 days in 2005 
and 200 days in 2006.

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 on the proposal form. 
Users, who are not eligible to the EU ACCESS program (e.g. German users) 
can apply for travel support from GeNF if they have no alternative funds.

A list of the available instruments is given below. Further details are 
available at 

http://genf.gkss.de 

For general questions please contact: genf at 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 (peter.staron at gkss.de) 
Diffractometer to Analyse Residual Stresses in specimens with technical 
sizes (up to 100 kg) using thermal nonpolarised neutrons. 

FSS (priesmeyer at gkss.de) 
Time of flight Fourier Strain Scanner to investigate residual stresses in 
specimens with technical sizes (up to 100 kg) using thermal nonpolarised 
neutrons. 

TEX-2 (brokmeier at gkss.de, anke.guenther at 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 at 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 (helmut.eckerlebe at gkss.de) 
Mainly used for the characterisation of precipitates, clusters, 
interfaces, grain sizes, magnetic structures etc. in (engineering) 
materials, polarised neutrons are optional. 

DCD (klaus.pranzas at gkss.de) 
Ultra small angle scattering experiment using cold non-polarised neutrons 
to characterise large creep, fatigue and sintering cavities, voids, 
bubbles, etc. in materials. 

Reflectometers 
PNR (danica.solina at 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 at 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 will be 
added in 2005. 

Imaging 
GENRA-3 (vollbrandt at gkss.de) 
GEesthacht Neutron RAdiography facility for non-destructive analysis of 
materials by static and dynamic imaging. 
  
 
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Schreyer
Institute for Materials Research
Dept. WFN (Neutron-/Synchrotron Scattering)
GKSS-Research Center
PO Box 1160
D-21494 Geesthacht, Germany
web: http://genf.gkss.de
e-mail: andreas.schreyer at gkss.de
phone : +49 4152 87-1254
fax:    +49 4152 87-1338