SURVEY OF NEUTRON SCATTERING OPPORTUNITIES IN EUROPE.

Jiri Kulda

Institut Laue-Langevin, BP 156, 38042 Grenoble Cedex, France

Keywords: neutron diffraction, neutron scattering instrumentation, neutron sources

The European crystallographic community has at its disposal two top class neutron sources, the recently refurbished high flux reactor of the ILL (France) and the ISIS spallation source at the Rutherford Lab. (UK), both providing wide user oriented instrumentation programmes. These are complemented by a number of national size reactor laboratories, most of them offering support to external users for a part of their beam time. While some of the smaller facilities are approaching their closing dates, others are coming to replace them. The SINQ at PSI (Switzerland) is in a final stage of commissioning, the construction of the new Munich reactor is progressing rapidly and the projects for a more distant future, AUSTRON and ESS (the Austrian and European spallation sources, respectively), entered into their instrumentation design phases.

After a brief review of the general perspectives, we wish to address questions interestingactual users: What are the recent neutron instrumentation developments? Which opportunities do they offer to do new science? We hope to answer these questions by a review of communications contributed from most of the European neutron scattering laboratories.