Today, we took delivery at ANSTO of the first major procurement (aside from the project office building) of the $37M Neutron Beam Expansion Project announced in the Australian Government's May 2009 Budget.
A highly versatile 12-T vertical-field cryomagnet with dilution refrigerator insert, from Oxford Instruments in the UK.
The split-pair magnet has a large aperture allowing use of the full detector arrays on WOMBAT and PELICAN, and it can be run in asymmetric mode, which can be an advantage for polarisation analysis experiments.
The whole package includes a dilution-refrigerator insert capable of reaching temperatures below 20mK.
Once commissioning tests have been undertaken by Oxford Instruments on our site, the first experiments using the magnet will be done.
Published: 26/07/2011