Endeavour update newsletter, Spring 2025
28 Mar 2025
The ISIS Endeavour programme comprises four new instruments and five significant upgrades, to be delivered over the next ten years.
Endeavour will deliver transformative impact in three societal challenge areas: materials for the future, clean growth and life sciences. For more information, see our interactive overview of Endeavour. This issue features highlights from the instrument upgrades that are already underway.
HRPD decant progressing
After the last users of HRPD finished their experiment in December, the instrument is being dismantled ahead of the planned demolition of the building to make way for the HRPD-X upgrade. The photograph below shows some of the technical staff involved in the decant.
Super MuSR pulse slicer
The pulse slicer removes the ends of each pulse of muons approaching the spectrometer, reducing the pulse width from ~100ns to 10ns. This increases the magnetic fields that Super-MuSR can measure.
The Super MuSR pulse slicer was designed by Akanay Avaroglu (right) and is currently being machined by Jamie Searis (left).
People of Endeavour
To start our series introducing the staff behind Endeavour, we speak to Aditya Bochare, lead design engineer for the HRPD-X project.
Tosca+ agreement signed
ISIS and the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) have signed a new partnership agreement. This agreement will see the two organisations working together to upgrade the Tosca instrument, as part of Endeavour.
The original Tosca instrument was constructed in partnership with CNR; the upgrade will see the instrument able to take data many times faster, opening up new science areas.
Signing the agreement on behalf of STFC, Roger Eccleston, STFC Executive Director Large Scale Facilities, said, “Our partnership with the CNR has been long-lasting and highly beneficial. The developments enabled by our new agreement are the latest in a long history of projects that have brought UK and Italian scientists together to produce excellent science and instrumentation.”
And finally
As part of the HRPD decant, the instrument was exposed in a way it had not been for many years, giving an opportunity for Mike Johnson to recreate a photograph taken during the initial instrument build.
