On Jan. 26, the Multi-Physics Instrument (MPI) received the neutron beam from the target station, marking the instrument's successful completion after two years of construction. MPI is CSNS's first user instrument and was built in cooperation with Dongguan University of Technology and the City University of Hong Kong. It is also the first neutron total scattering instrument in China.
MPI will mainly be used for research on materials with different ordered structures, focusing on structural analysis of long-range order and locally disordered materials, and long-range disorder and short-range ordered materials. It will serve both the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong users as an effective tool to probe materials, especially for research on materials science, condensed matter physics, life science and nano-materials.
CSNS's success comes against the backdrop of the Coronavirus pandemic, which created a difficult situation for CSNS scientists and engineers, especially when they couldn't proceed with production and installation of key components during the lockdown. Nevertheless, they managed to overcome these difficulties and successfully developed China's first 12-cubic-meter neutron scattering vacuum chamber. What's more, they also managed to install the neutron guide, even though they were unable to get any onsite help from the manufacturers due to the international lockdown.
The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), located in Dongguan city, south China's Guangdong Province, has started this year's first round of user operation, according to the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The first user of this year's field experiments, a research team from the University of Science and Technology of China, aims to use neutron imaging technology for archaeological research.
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