The operating licence for our TAIPAN thermal-neutron 3-axis spectrometer was issued today by ARPANSA, our nuclear regulator.
Congratulations are due to Sergei Danilkin and Jamie Schulz, amongst others, for lots of hard work to achieve this result.
We will now schedule the backlog of high-quality proposals from the last three proposal rounds, following the prioritisation from the Program Advisory Committee.
Some proof-of-performance experiments have already taken place as part of hot commissioning and performance testing, with the result that two papers have been published with data from TAIPAN: (1) J. Phys. Soc. Japan 79, Suppl. A, 25-28 (2010); and (2) Phys. Rev. B 82, 134409 (2010).