Phase one
HRPD-X – a major upgrade to the current HRPD instrument at ISIS, to expand its user base into new research areas and maintain its position as a world-leading facility for high resolution powder diffraction using neutrons. Research areas include materials for gas separation, encapsulation and purification, including greenhouse gas management or hydrogen economy.
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Super MuSR – The next generation of muon spectroscopy instrument with a transformational increase in counting rate and time resolution, creating a unique instrument world-wide. Super MuSR will deliver enhanced capacity and capability relevant to a wide range of studies including Faraday Battery Challenge projects to one of the most oversubscribed ISIS instruments.
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Phase two
In detailed design stage:
Mushroom – an entirely novel concept that will be transformative for inelastic neutron scattering. Mushroom will enable use of much smaller samples, more detailed parametric studies, and new types of sample environment and in-situ equipment, in areas such as thin magnetic films, thermo-electrics, magneto-resistive materials, ionic conductors and battery materials.
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Wish-II – a new instrument and polarisation upgrade for Wish. The project is twofold: building a new single crystal (optimised for small crystals) and epitaxial thin film (down to 30nm) cold neutron diffractometer Wish-II with a large continuous detector coverage (approx. 2.5π) and an upgrade to the existing Wish beamline to implement polarized neutron measurement capability, which together promise transformative breakthroughs in Advanced Manufacturing, Materials of the Future and Clean Growth.
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Sandals-II – a diffractometer for chemical engineering in amorphous and liquid samples providing information on multi-component samples used in catalysis, drug release, hydrogen storage, oil industry systems and polymers.
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Moving to detailed design during 2026/27
Tosca+ – an order of magnitude more flux through development of the Tosca secondary spectrometer for vibrational spectroscopy studies in catalysis and energy materials, enabling the instrument to remain globally competitive.
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Osiris+ – a high-resolution spectrometer and diffractometer for studies of atomic and molecular-level motions. This upgrade will enable studies in catalysis and energy materials, enhancing exiting industrial work.
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Phase three
Selection process ongoing to determine Phase 3 instruments - this process will be completed by early 2026.
User meetings
In July 2021 a series of user meetings was held to present and discuss the Endeavour Programme projects. Talks describing each project were given by members of the user community. You can see recordings of these talks on the Endeavour Programme User Meetings web page.
