Endeavour update newsletter Winter 2024
02 Jan 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.
First official users of Super MuSR
In September, the Super MuSR team used the MuSR beamline over a two-week intensive testing period to check the detector system meets specification. The testing involved Andrea Abba and Francesco Caponio from Nuclear Instruments, who have supplied these control systems. This made them the first official Super MuSR users on the proposal system!
HRPD welcomes last users before upgrade
HRPD has been part of the ISIS instrument suite from the very beginning and was the first ISIS instrument to collect data. In December, Lexy Gillette and Lemuel Crentsil from the University of Oxford were the last users on the beamline before its demolition and rebuild as part of the HRPD-X project.
People of Endeavour
To start our series introducing the staff behind Endeavour, we speak to Kevin Jones, ISIS Instruments Project Lead and Endeavour programme manager.
Find out more about his journey taking instruments from conception to operation.
Spotlight on: Detectors
The detectors for both HRPD-X and SuperMuSR are being designed and built within STFC, with teams from across ISIS and the Technology department working together. Find out more by reading our feature articles on the SuperMuSR and HRPD-X detectors, the latter of which will require hand threading over 60 km of fibres!
