About the School
This was a new theoretical school where advanced concepts of muon spectroscopy will be taught across a wide range of science areas. It was the first school of this type since the 1998 Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics held at St Andrews University. The international experts gave lectures and tutorials covering the theory and practice of muon spectroscopy and complementary techniques. Students gained a comprehensive grounding in modern techniques and applications at both continuous and pulsed muon sources and had the opportunity to hear about the latest research being carried out with the method.
The school lecturers combined to write an introductory textbook published by Oxford University Press and edited by Stephen Blundell (Oxford), Roberto De Renzi (Parma), Tom Lancaster (Durham), and Francis Pratt (ISIS). More details on the book can be found at: https://www.musr.org/muon-spectroscopy-book.
Printable version
Programme
The first half of the school introduced the muon spectroscopy technique and various science areas. The second half focussed on an in-depth discussion of its application to different science areas. There were a series of lectures on each science subject. The students made short presentations (single slide for 2 min each) to their peers about their current research projects and how muon spectroscopy can help them. There were also tutorials to work in pairs to write a beamtime proposal, data analysis and muon site calculations. The students also had the opportunity to visit the ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Facility and attend some evening lectures from prestigious names from the muon community.
Topics covered during the school included:
- Magnetic materials
- Superconductors
- Energy materials
- Semiconductors
- Molecular materials
- Studies of thin films and interfaces
- Reaction kinetics
- Muon spectroscopy under Extreme Environments
- Muon site determination & DFT
Lecturers and Tutors included
Alex Amato (PSI)
Peter Baker (ISIS)
Adam Berlie (ISIS)
Pabitra Biswas (ISIS)
Stephen Blundell (Oxford)
Pietro Carretta (Pavia)
Stephen Cottrell (ISIS)
Stephen Cox (ISIS)
Pierre Dalmas (CEA)
Roberto De Renzi (Parma)
Jon Gluyas (Durham)
Adrian Hillier (ISIS)
Rustem Khasanov (PSI)
Tom Lancaster (Durham)
Leandro Liborio (STFC-SCD)
James Lord (ISIS)
Martin Månsson (KTH)
Iain McKenzie (TRIUMF)
Francis Pratt (ISIS)
Robert Scheuermann (PSI)
Simone Sturniolo (STFC-SCD)
Jun Sugiyama (J-PARC)
Andreas Suter (PSI)
Mark Telling (ISIS)
Rui Vilão (Coimbra)
Koji Yokoyama (ISIS)
The link to the playlist on YouTube of all the lectures given at the course can be found here.
Copies of lectures given at the course can be found below in .pdf format (please be aware that some of these are several Mb in size):
Main organiser
- Pabitra Biswas (ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)
- Francis Pratt (ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom)
Co-organiser
- Alex Amato (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
- Stephen Blundell (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
- Adrian Hillier (ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom)
Organising committee
- Alex Amato (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
- Peter Baker (ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom)
- Pabitra Biswas (ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)
- Stephen Blundell (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
- Stephen Cottrell (ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom)
- Adrian Hillier (ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom)
- Hubertus Luetkens (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
- Francis Pratt (ISIS, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom)
- Thomas Prokscha (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
