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The League of advanced European Neutron Sources, LENS, hopes to guide and advocate for the European neutron user community in this current period of transition and optimism catalysed by the advent of the world’s most powerful spallation source, ESS.The forthcoming establishment of a new strategic consortium of European neutron sources was announced on 22 June 2018 in Brussels. The League of advan…

The PSND2018 (International workshop on Position Sensitive Neutron Detectors) took place at FZJülich in May. The most recent detector development carried out at the ILL has been presented.

It was with great pleasure that we were able to welcome Madame Frédérique Vidal, Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation to the EPN campus on 13 June 2018. Shortly after the arrival of the minister's group at the ESRF, Professor Helmut Schober, Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin, had the honour of presenting the ILL to the Minister and to the assembly of guests invited for this…

Today, 18 May, the Institut Laue-Langevin had the honour and the pleasure of welcoming Mona Nemer, the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, who was visiting Grenoble and the EPN campus. She was accompanied by Yannick Neuder, vice-president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region with responsibility for higher education, research, innovation and European funds, and by Geneviève Fioraso, former French Minis…

A neutron diffraction pattern from a crystal of the PKG II enzyme binding domain with an activator bound, collected using the LADI-III beamline at the Institut Laue-Langevin. Credit:Blakeley & Kovalevsky. Enzyme associated with stomach cancer and osteoporosis s…

E=mc2 : Michael Jentschel and Klaus Blaum explain why the most famous equation of physics needs checking — and how to do it. A Nature Physics publication.

The helix structure of BACOVO: the oxygen atoms, represented in red, are organized in octahedra around the cobalt atoms, located at their center. The blue arrows represent the small moments carried by the cobalt atoms, ordered antiferromagnetically along the helical chain. © CEA/CNRS/UGA …

Even as we are going to celebrate 80 years since the discovery of nuclear fission, there remain significant gaps in our understanding of the nuclear fission process – which impacts on the success of modelling the fission reaction and its applications. Despite tremendous effort, aspects of nuclear fission are still open to inquiry.Nuclear reactors have already been in successful operation for 75 y…

The two IN16B instrument projects BATS and GaAs have just been successfully commissioned. They were developed in collaboration between the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and the ILL over the last years, and both ventures were largely financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through its ‘Verbundforschung’ programme.The BATS (Backscattering And Time-of-fli…

An EPN-campus successful collaboration

The rare earth nickelates RNiO3 with the high Ni3+ oxidation state have continued to attract enormous interest due to the famous metal-insulator transition and unusual charge and spin-order phenomena. The prediction for multiferroicity and even superconductivity in thin film hetero-structures have triggered new intensive research efforts. However, our theoretical understanding remains limited. Lo…

Neutrinos are notoriously hard-to-detect elementary particles. They are produced in the core of stars, at particle accelerators, in very high energy phenomena or – as in STEREO – in nuclear reactor cores. Neutrinos do not carry any electric charge and only rarely do they interact with matter. Nowadays, we know of three types: electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos. The 20-year old a…