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International Workshop on

Present Status and Future of Very Cold Neutron Applications

13-14 February 2006 Paul Scherrer Institute - Switzerland.


The aim was to discuss the perspectives of using very cold neutrons 15-100 Å or larger wavelength in condensed matter research and fundamental physics.

New developments in very cold moderation and phase space transformation methods indicate that an increased VCN flux might be available in the near future which could be used in neutron-based science.

A previous workshop has been held 21-24 August 2005 at IPNS-ANL – Proceedings.


AGENDA – talks as PDF

	Monday 13 February	Tuesday 14 February
0900 - 0930		Session VCN Future I. – Chair R. Gähler J.M. Carpenter 5-Prospects for a Very Cold Neutron Source at ANL
0930 - 1000		B. J. Micklich 5 - Computational studies of VCN production
1000 - 1030	Registration	J. Lal 5 - Structure and dynamics in complex systems - Prospects with VCN
1030 - 1100	SINQ, SmS, SLS  Tour	Coffee+
1100 - 1130		Session VCN Future II. – Chair H. M. Shimizu G. Zsigmond 2 - Monochromatic VCN production by phase space transformation
1130 - 1200		A. Ioffe 6 - A new instrumentation for VCN spectroscopy
1200 - 1230	Registration	A. P. Serebrov, V. T. Lebedev 7 – I. Gravitational VCN Diffractometer, II. Applications for studies of nanostructures
1240 - 1320	Lunch PSI Restaurant OASE	Lunch PSI Restaurant OASE
1330 - 1400	Welcome words K. Clausen Session UCN – Chair J.M. Carpenter P. W. Geltenbort 1 - VCN and UCN installations at the ILL	Session Neutron Applications – Chair Y. Kawabata V. K. Ignatovich 8 - Investigation of neutron wave packet properties
1400 - 1430	A. Pichlmaier 2 - The Ultra-Cold Neutron Source at PSI	R. Gähler 1 - Neutron optics in time and its applications
1430 - 1500	M. Kasprzak 2 - UCN production efficiency of solid D2, O2 and CD4	H. M. Shimizu 9 - Advances  of slow neutron optics for materials science and fundamental physics
1500 - 1530	V. V. Nesvizhevsky 1 - A possibility to cool down VCN to the UCN energy range in gels of ultracold nanoparticles	Th. Gutberlet 2 - Ideas about reflectometry with VCN
1530 - 1600	Coffee+	V. K. Ignatovich 8 - Neutron holography without reference beam
1600 - 1630	Session VCN Present – Chair P. W. Geltenbort Y. Kawabata 3 - Very cold neutron radiography for high contrast neutron imaging	Coffee+
1630 - 1700	M. Hino 3 - Development of a very cold neutron spin interferometer	Discussion - Chair P. Böni Final discussion on VCN production and future applications
1700 - 1730	R. Georgii 4 - Very cold neutrons on MIRA at FRM2	1900- Dinner in Restaurant Santa Lucia, Brugg
1730 - 1800	M. Kasprzak 2 - Thermal up-scattering of VCN in solid D2
1830 - 2100	Workshop Dinner PSI Restaurant OASE

¹Institut Laue-Langevin, ²Paul Scherrer Institut, ³Kyoto Univ. Res. Reactor Inst., Neutron Optics Division,  ⁴Technische Univ. Muenchen FRM-II, Forschungsneutronenquelle Garching, ⁵Argonne National Laboratory, IPNS Division, ⁶Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH Inst. fuer Festkoerperforschung, ⁷Petersburg Nuclear Physics Inst. Dept. Neutron Research, ⁸Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research Frank Lab. of Neutron Physics, ⁹High Energy Acc. Research Org. Neutron Science Lab. Japan

  Other participants: Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie UMR 5821 - CNRS, etc

PHOTOS from the workshop dinner here

Organizers
Dr. Géza Zsigmond - PST Project
Dr. Peter Allenspach - Head LDM/NUM
Margit Braun-Shea - PSI User Office
Denise Castellazzi - Secretary

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