India Joins European Neutron Facility in Grenoble
MAR 15, 2012
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025940
Science : India is the first non-European country to join the international neutron research facility at the Institut Laue–Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France. Indian scientists will have about 50 days of beam time at ILL and will also be able to initiate about 15 new independent materials science experiments. In exchange, the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in Mumbai will spend close to $10 million over the next four years to support the collaboration and will make new detectors for the ILL facility. One of the most intense neutron sources in the world, ILL is used for structural studies in chemistry, biology, materials science, nuclear physics, and condensed-matter physics. About 70 Indian researchers have already registered to use the facility.
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