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EPSRC Reference: GR/R23527/01
Title: Merlin - a High Count Rate Spectrometer For Condensed Matter Science
Principal Investigator: Dove, Professor MT
Other Investigators:
Hayden, Professor S McEwen, Professor K Eccleston, Professor RS
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Department: Earth Sciences
Organisation: University of Cambridge
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 05 August 2002 Ends: 31 December 2002 Value (£): 1,311,358
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Cells Condensed Matter Physics
Materials Characterisation
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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We propose to construct MERLIN, a new inelastic neutron scattering spectrometer at the ISIS spallation source. MERLIN will take advantage of technological developments in position sensitive detectors, guides, polarised neutrons and computation to contruct a flexible spectrometer which will beused by researchers working in many sub-fields of condensed matter science. Data collection rates will, in some cases, be several orders of magnitude higher than other spectrometers operating in the same momentum and energy range. The thermal energy range for which MERLIN is optimised (0-100meV) corresponds to energies which are most important in determining the properties of condensed matter. Examples of areas where the spectrometer will be of use include: High temperature and other novel superconductors, Transition metal oxides, Non-Fermi liquid and heavy Fermion systems, Model magnetic systems, Colossal magnetoresistance compounds, Structural and magnetic phase transitions, Dynamics of complex materials, Molecular spectroscopy, Excitations in liquids and amorphous systems, and Quantum Fluids.
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