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Fig. 11.4: Gain in detection efficiency at ILL obtained through Millennium upgrade programmes (blue bars). Associated integrated investment (green points and curve).
11.2.2 The Endurance Programme
The Millennium Programme was followed by the most recent set of upgrade and maintenance projects, Endurance. This programme is set to run for the period 2016 to 2023 and includes new and modified instruments, underpinned by further investment in sample environment, data reduction and analysis software, and improvements to thermal neutron guide tubes.
It is instructive to consider briefly the details of Endurance since the scope of the programme demonstrates that after some 50 years of forefront neutron research, the ILL continues to equip itself
for cutting-edge research. During the first phase (2016-2019) a major renewal of one of ILL’s principal thermal guide tubes is
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