ILL facilities overview
Under its dome, the ILL operates the High Flux Reactor (HFR), a research reactors that delivers the world's most intense continuous neutron beams to a suite of over 40 state-of-the-art neutron instruments. Additonally, the ILL offer to its scientific users an unparalleled set of support labs and scientific and technical services. This enables research across a wide range of scientific disciplines, providing the scientific community with advanced tools to study material structures, molecular dynamics and magnetic properties.
The secret behind the ILL's modern and highly optimised infrastructure is the constant upgrade of its facilities and instruments. Through continuous investment in scientific infrastructures, instruments, support labs and services, the ILL is at its highest performance level ever.
ILL's suite of over 40 instruments is located in the reactor building (ILL5) and in the neutron guide halls (ILL7 and ILL22). The instruments are organised in groups according to the techniques they use. The user support infrastructure includes laboratories and technical facilities dedicated to advanced neutron sample environments and to biology and soft matter, namely chemistry and deuteration laboratories.
Besides the user support facilities, ILL's installations include laboratories and technical facilities for research and development (R&D) in a comprehensive set of neutron technologies, in which the ILL is world leader.
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