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ANTARES

Cold neutron radiography and tomography facility

This instrument is focussed on cold neutrons. Therefore, please carefully check the “Technical data WITHOUT cold source” section. Deviating parameters are in bold. The instrument team is happy to answer any further questions!

Instrumentscheme ANTARES Instrumentscheme ANTARES

The neutron imaging facility ANTARES is located at the neutron beam port SR-4a. Based on a pinhole and flight tube principle (no neutron guide) with a variable collimator located close to the beam port, the facility provides for flexible use in high-resolution and high-flux imaging.

ANTARES offers two different detector positions, which may be chosen according to the requirements for beam size, neutron flux and spatial resolution. Both chambers offer abundant space for user-provided experimental systems or sample environments.

The beam formation chamber is separately accessible for the optional installation of devices shaping the beam and spectrum provided by the user. At this position, ANTARES also offers built-in options such as a velocity selector, a neutron grating interferometer and a double crystal monochromator, which are readily available for standard user operation.

The spectrum of ANTARES is shown in fig. 1 (see gallery). ANTARES offers a high neutron flux of approx. 6.3 × 107 n cm-2 s-1 at a typical collimation of L/D = 500. By using different pinholes, the collimation can be adjusted to the experiment’s requirements. Additionally, we can provide access to a microfocus X-ray CT set-up for complementary investigations with a spatial resolution as good as 1 μm.

Typical applications
Special sample environment
Technical data WITHOUT cold source
Technical data WITH cold source

Instrument scientists

Dr. Michael Schulz
Phone: +49 (0)89 289-14718
E-mail: michael.schulz@frm2.tum.de

Dr. Burkhard Schillinger
Phone: +49 (0)89 289-12185
E-mail: burkhard.schillinger@frm2.tum.de

Dr. Tobias Neuwirth
Phone: +49 (0)89 289-11754
E-mail: tobias.neuwirth@frm2.tum.de

ANTARES
Phone: +49 (0)89 289-14815

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TUM

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News

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Publications

Find the latest publications regarding ANTARES in our publication database iMPULSE:

impulse.mlz-garching.de

Citation templates for users

In all publications based on experiments on this instrument, you must provide some acknowledgements. To make your work easier, we have prepared all the necessary templates for you on this page.

Instrument control

Gallery

Compare spectrum
Compare spectrum

Differential neutron flux at ANTARES with cold source (blue) and without cold source (red) with a collimation ratio of L/D=500

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Compare_spectrum_velocity_selector

Differential neutron flux at ANTARES when using the neutron velocity selector with cold source (blue) and without cold source (red) at a collimation ratio of L/D=500. The step at 3 Å arises due to the change of the wavelength resolution from 20 percent below 3 Å to 10 percent above 3 Å.

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ANTARES
ANTARES
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ANTARES application example
ANTARES application example

Radiography of a motorcycle engine.

At the instrument ANTARES
At the instrument ANTARES
Antares scheme
Antares scheme
© Tobias Neuwirth FRM II/ TUM
© Tobias Neuwirth FRM II/ TUM
© Tobias Neuwirth FRM II/ TUM

MLZ is a cooperation between:

Technische Universität München> Technische Universität MünchenHelmholtz-Zentrum Hereon> Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Forschungszentrum Jülich> Forschungszentrum Jülich

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