On Friday the 12th of June, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency has given approval to commence user and commercial operations on SIKA cold neutron triple axis spectrometer.
User experiments approved following the Program Advisory Committee meeting in May 2015 can now be scheduled.
This demonstrated our commitment to service for Taiwan neutron research.
The SIKA cold-neutron 3-axis spectrometer, which is operated by the NSRRC, has taken its first neutron scattering patterns. A diffraction pattern of a common standard Ni was first measured in diffraction mode before the 3rd axis was added to produce an inelastic neutron scattering spectrum of a crystal-field excitation in PrFeO3.
A fixed incident energy of 5.11 meV was used and the spectrum shows a scan of the final energy, with the excitation at an energy transfer of around 2 meV.
