FLIPPER 2024

Session

Historical accounts

11 Dec 2024, 16:30

Chadwick amphitheatre (ILL4)

38. Historical account of polarised neutron techniques development at Grenoble

David Jullien (ILL), Eddy Lelievre-Berna (Institut Laue-Langevin)

11/12/2024, 16:30

Historical accounts

Invited talk

Since the first polarised neutron experiment carried out with the diffractometer DN2 in the reactor Mélusine, a tremendous work has been performed at Grenoble to develop polarisation neutron techniques.

At the ILL, among the first generation of instruments, there was only one using polarised neutrons, built by the team working at Mélusine. The extraordinary step brought by the high-flux...