SFN Data treatment

7 Dec 2026, 09:00 → 10 Dec 2026, 18:00 Europe/Paris

ILL50

This year, SFN is organizing a topical school on Time-of-Flight neutron spectroscopy, which will be held between December 7th and 10th 2026 at the ILL.

 

The objective of this school is to accompany the French neutron community towards the use of Time-of-flight spectrometers in spallation sources, and especially in preparation for the use of the upcoming instruments suite at the ESS.  This school is addressed to participants (permanent and non-permanent) who are already familiar with neutron spectroscopy. To ensure a high pedagogical quality and interactions during tutorials and practicals, attendance will be limited to 30 participants. Selection will be based on a short CV and brief statement of motivation. Priority will be given to participants from the French community but registration may be extended to international users depending on attendance.

Lectures will be in English.

Monday 7 December

Arrival and welcome

12:00 Lunch

1 Part 1.A. Introduction: Beam production and shaping from the source to the moderator

Speaker: Pascale Deen (ESS)

15:30 Coffee

2 Part 1.B. Beam shaping

Speaker: Xavier Fabrèges (LLB)

Tuesday 8 December

Tutorials: PANTHER and Fantastic

Conveners: David Tam (ILL), Kyriakos Karyos (LLB), Stéphane Rols (ILL), Xavier Fabrèges (LLB)

12:00 Lunch

3 Presentation of BIFROST - ESS

Speaker: Rasmus Toft-Petersen (ESS)

4 Presentation of CSPEC - ESS

Speaker: Daria Noferini (ESS)

5 LET with polarisation analysis - ISIS

Speaker: Ross Stewart (ISIS)

15:30 Coffee

6 Presentation of CAMEA - PSI

Speaker: Jakob Lass (PSI)

Discussions and Buffet

Wednesday 9 December

7 Part II A. Data reduction

Speaker: Mohamed Aouane (ESS)

10:00 Coffee

8 Part II B. Data format : how to handle Nexus files

Speaker: Franck Cécillon (ILL)

Questions and discussions

12:30 Lunch

Practicals on SCIPP

• Data reduction and analysis - BIFROST
• QUENS analysis on EASYDYNAMICS - CSPEC

Conveners: Daria Noferini (ESS), Gregory Tucker (ESS), Rasmus Toft-Petersen (ESS)

Thursday 10 December

Praticals on Mantid

• QUENS/backscattering data analysis - SHARPER
• Single crystal neutron inelastic data analysis - PANTHER
• Polarisation analysis (QUENS) - LET

Conveners: David Tam (ILL), Quentin Berrod (ILL), Ross Stewart (ISIS)

12:00 Lunch

Departure