The planned closure of the Orphee reactor at Laboratoire Leon Brillouin in Saclay, Paris since a few days means the loss of a great piece of research infrastructure in neutron scattering science. The expertise of the staff involved is of course maintained and applied but training future neutron scientists cannot be done anymore at this…
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Happy birthday Ultra Cold Neutron!
A musical celebration of the Ultra Cold Neutron in Nature by Hartmut Abele and co-workers:
ECNS 2019: a very successful conference!
An impression of the Saint Petersburg ECNS 2019 conference: the marvelous conference venue MANEGE CENTRAL EXHIBITION HALL in the center of St Petersburg, next to the St. Isaac Cathedral; the opening session on Sunday afternoon by the officials; the 25th celebration of ENSA, celebrated with the user community and a beautiful cake and concert, which…
First Instrumentation & Innovation Prize
The winner of the inaugural 2019 ENSA Neutron Instrumentation and Innovation Award is Markus Appel. “For ground-breaking advances of the neutron back-scattering technique leading to extended dynamic range, higher resolution and better signal-to-noise on the IN16B spectrometer at ILL”. Markus Appel, currently a staff scientist at ILL, has since his PhD from TU Darmstadt devoted…
The 2019 Walter Hälg Prize Winner: Kell Mortensen
Kell has been a world leader in the application of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) to soft matter systems, in particular, polymers for three decades. He has contributed numerous fundamental advances to our understanding of the thermodynamics and dynamics of soft materials along with developing innovative in-situ techniques. Scientifically his work on Polymer I Block copolymer…
Work in progress
The previous ENSA website has been blocked for some time now, due to technical problems. We are constructing a new site at this moment. Please bear with us.
ECNS 2019 St. Petersburg
The upcoming European Conference for Neutron Scattering will be held in the beautiful city of Saint Petersburg from 30 June until 05 July 2019.
UCANS 8
The 8th International Meeting of the Union for Compact Acceleration-driven Neutron Sources will be held in Paris from July 8-11 2019. For the programme see https://ucans8.sciencesconf.org/
Hello Neutron Scatterers!
Welcome to the new website of the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA). We, ENSA, represent the scientists that use large-scale research infrastructures that operate a neutron source, like research reactors and accelerator-based spallation sources. Half of the worlds mass actually consists of neutrons. Half of you consists of neutrons. Neutrons bind together the protons in…