Ines
Neutron diffraction and elemental analysis through neutron resonance absorption spectroscopy. Ines is a general purpose diffractometer and is mainly devoted to materials characterisation (structure refinement, phase and elemental composition analysis).
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Further information
A large part of the science performed on Ines involves cultural heritage studies, involving collaborations with multiple stakeholders, museums/curators, and researchers in the field. Texture and strain analysis has applications with industrial partners. The versatility of the instrument means that it is also used for large-equipment and detector testing at ISIS. Ines is equipped with multiple detector types for the measurement of neutron powder diffraction, neutron resonance transmission imaging (NRTI), and gamma emission from neutron resonance capture analysis (NRCA).
All publications and datasets based on experiments using Ines should cite that the data is collected by DOI: 10.5286/isis.instrument.7718. Experiment DOIs follow the format 10.5286/ISIS.E.RBXXXXXXX, where XXXXXXX is the 7-digit experiment (RB) number and these can be viewed via the Data Gateway.
Reference paper: Preliminary results of the Italian neutron experimental station Ines at ISIS: Archaeometric applications, DOI: 10.1393/ncc/i2006-10039-5.