Today we received the first delivered items for the SIKA Cold-Neutron 3-axis Spectometer, roughly 50 m2 of polished black granite for the instrument dance floor.
The instrument components move around on high-precision air pads, under computer control, on this dance floor. SIKA, the 9th neutron-beam instrument at the OPAL reactor, is an $8M project funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan, and managed by the National Central University.
The next major components, including the double-focussing monochromator system and the main monochromator shielding assembly, will arrive in mid-2009.
Published: 06/02/2009