***Fourth International Workshop on\
Sample Environment at***

***Neutron Scattering Facilities***

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Argonne, IL USA

September 6-8, 2006

**Wednesday, September 6, 2006 Building 360, L119**

08:00am to 08:30am Registration and Gathering Time

08:30am to 09:00am Welcome & Introductions -- Ray Teller and Ken Volin

**Session I Chair: Michael Meissner**

09:00am to 09:20am *Ever Improving Sample Environment at the IPNS*\
[Ken Volin]{.underline}, IPNS/ANL, Argonne, IL USA.

09:20am to 09:40am *Overview of the "Modernization of Sample
Environment" Project\
*[Eddy Lelièvre-Berna]{.underline}, N. Belkhier, E. Bourgeat-Lami, S.
Demas, J.--P. Gonzales, J.--L. Laborier, O. Losserand, P. Martin, L.
Mélési, P. Mendes, J.--L. Ragazzoni, and X. Tonon, ILL, Grenoble, FRA

09:40am to 10:00am *Alignment Techniques for Installing Neutron
Scattering Instruments using Modern Laser Interferometry\
*[Scott Moore]{.underline}, J. L. Robertson, G. B. Taylor, CNS/ORNL, Oak
Ridge, TN, USA, E. R. Blackburn, M. W. Humphreys, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN,
USA, and C. E. Stalsworth, Y-12/ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

10:00am to 10:30am Break and Discussions -- Building 360 L145

**Session II Chair: Zoe Bowden**

10:30am to 10:50am *Sample Environment on High Resolution Fourier
Diffractometer on IBR-2 Reactor\
*[Valeriy Simkin]{.underline}, FLNP/JINR, Dubna, RUS

10:50am to 11:10am *Spreadsheet Calculations for Sample Environment
Problems\
*[Lou Santodonato]{.underline}, SNS/ORNL, Oakridge, TN USA

11:10am to 11:30pm *Cryofurnace Made Simple*\
[Bruce Hill]{.underline} and J. W. Wenzel, SNS/ORNL, Oakridge, TN USA

11:30am to 11:50am *7th Framework Programme Sample Environment Joint
Research Activity*\
Moderator: E. Lelièvre-Berna

11:50pm to 02:00pm Lunch and Discussions -- Argonne Cafeteria Building
213, Dining Rm B

**Session III Chair: Scott Olsen**

02:00pm to 02:20pm *Novel Cryogen Level Monitors*\
[Xavier Tonon]{.underline} , Olivier Losserand, N. Belkhier, J.-P.
Gonzales, P. Mendes, J.-L. Ragazzoni, X. Tonon, and E. Lelièvre-Berna,
ILL, Grenoble, FRA

02:20pm to 02:40pm *The Quest for Rapid Cooling and Setpoint
Equilibration*\
[Lakeisha Walker]{.underline}, SNS/ORNL, Oakridge, TN USA

02:40pm to 03:00pm *Sample Environment Innovation at the GPPD
Instrument\
*[Evan Maxey]{.underline}, IPNS/ANL, Argonne, IL USA

03:00pm to 04:00pm Poster Session I -- Building 360, L145\
 *Update on Thermometry at ILL\
*Xavier Tonon, J. Gonthier, N. Belkhier, J.-P. Gonzales, O. Losserand,
P. Mendes,J.-L. Raggazoni, and E. Lelièvre-Berna, Institut Laue
Langevin, Grenoble, FRA.\
 *Controls Engineering for a Compact Crystal Positioning System*\
Prishantha Dunstan, C. Hoffmann, R. Viola, E. Miller, P. Carman, [L.
Santodonato]{.underline} and G. Granroth, SNS, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA*\
* *Hydrogen Under Pressure at ISIS\
*[Andy Church]{.underline} and C. Goodway, ISIS/RAL, Oxfordshire, UK\
 *Gas Pressure Cells Designed and Built at the IPNS for Neutron
Scattering Experiments\
*[Bob Kleb and Rich Vitt]{.underline},, IPNS/ANL, Argonne, IL USA*\
* *Direct Pressure Measurement using Ruby Fluorescence\
*[Beth Evans]{.underline} and J. W. Dreyer, ISIS/RAL, Oxfordshire, UK

**Session IV Chair: Ken Volin**

04:00pm to 05:00pm Tour of the IPNS Sample Environment

05:00pm End of Workshop Day

**Thursday, September 7, 2006 Building 360, L119**

08:30am to 09:00am Gathering Time

**Session V Chair**: **Jurgen Peters**

09:00am to 09:20am *Packaging Top-Loading Closed-Cycle Refrigerators for
Beamline Research\
*[Dan Dender]{.underline}, NCNR/NIST, Gaithersburg, MD USA

09:20am to 09:40am *EPICS Control of Sample Environment\
*[Rodney R. Porter]{.underline}, IPNS/ANL, Argonne, IL USA

09:40am to 10:00am *SEA -- a Modular Sample Environment Control System\
*[Markus Zolliker]{.underline} and M. Koennecke, Laboratory for
Developments and Methods, SINQ/PSI, Villigen, SUI

10:00am to 10:30am Break and Discussions -- Building 360, L145

**Session VI Chair: Marcus Zolliker**

10:30am to 10:50am *Refrigerator Cryostats at BENSC*\
[Michael Meissner]{.underline} and S. Gerischer, BENSC/HMI, Berlin, GER

10:50am to 11:10am *Latest Developments in Closed Cycle Cryostats at
Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)*\
[Heinrich Kolb]{.underline} and J. Peters, Forschungsneutronenquelle
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz , GER

11:10am to 11:30pm *Exploitation of Pulse Tubes at ISIS\
*[Beth Evans]{.underline} and O. Kirichek, ISIS/RAL, Oxfordshire, GBR

11:30am to 11:50am *Open Discussion on Information Interchange via the
Web*\
Moderators:?

11:50pm to 02:00pm Lunch and Discussions - Argonne Cafeteria Building
213, Dining Rm B

**Session VII Chair: Eddy Lelievre-Berna**

02:00pm to 02:20pm *Combined Levitation and Neutron Diffraction to
Investigate Liquids at ExtremeTemperatures\
*[R. Weber]{.underline}, J.E. Rix, Containerless Research, Inc.,
Evanston, IL, 60202, USA, C.J. Benmore, J.E. Siewenie, IPNS/ANL,
Argonne, IL, USA, and L.J. Santodonato, SNS/ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

02:20pm to 02:40pm *Design and Implementation of a Cryogenic Loading
Capability on the Spectrometer for Materials Research at Temperature and
Stress (SMARTS)\
*[Tim Woodruff]{.underline}, V. Krishnan, R. Vaidyanathan, Advanced
Materials Processing and Analysis Center; Mechanical, Materials and
Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL USA,
and B. Clausen, T. Sisneros, D. Brown, M. Bourke, LANSCE/MST, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM USA

02:40pm to 03:00pm *Automatic Sample Changer for Cryogenic Sample
Environments*\
[Jim Rix]{.underline} and R. Weber, Containerless Research, Inc,
Evanston, IL USA, L. J. Santodonato, B. Hill, J. Hodges, M. Rennich,
SNS/ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, and K.J. Volin, IPNS/ANL, Argonne, IL, USA

03:00pm to 04:00pm Poster Session II -- Building 360, L145\
 *Super Solid Helium\
*[Richard Down]{.underline} and D. Bruce, ISIS/RAL, Oxfordshire, UK.\
 *Sample Environment Testing and Diagnostics using LabVIEW*\
[Rich Como]{.underline} and K. J. Volin, IPNS/ANL, Argonne, IL USA.\
 *New Power-Bays for ILL-type Furnaces\
*Steffen Demas, P. Martin, N. Belkhier, [E. Lelièvre-Berna]{.underline},
ILL, Grenoble, FR\
 *Advanced Magnets for Pulsed Neutron Scattering at ISIS*[\
Dave Bunce]{.underline} and R. Down, ISIS/RAL, Oxfordshire, UK.\
 *New Pressure Cells at ISIS\
*[Andy Church]{.underline} and C. Goodway, ISIS/RAL, Oxfordshire, UK

**Session VIII Chair: Scott Moore**

04:00pm to 04:20pm *Radial Collimators, Reducing SE Background on the
SEPD*\
[Joe Fieramosca]{.underline}, IPNS/ANL, Argonne, IL USA

04:20pm to 04:40pm *Pulsed Magnetic Field Experiments for Neutron and
X-Ray*\
[Hiroyuki Nojiri]{.underline}, K. Ohoyama, and Y. H. Matsuda, Institute
for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, JPN

# 04:40pm to 05:00pm *New High Field Magnet for Neutron Scattering at Hahn-Meitner Institute* [Peter Smeibidl]{.underline}, BENSC/HMI, Berlin, GER

05:00pm End of Workshop Day

06:00pm to 8:00pm No-Host Reception at the Argonne Exchange Club,
Building 617\
Snacks and Cash Bar

**Friday, September 8, 2006 Building 360, L119**

08:30am to 09:00am Gathering Time

**Session IX Chair**: **Dan Dender**

09:00am to 09:20am *Sample Environments at the OPAL Neutron Beam
Facility\
*[Scott Olsen]{.underline}, J.Schulz, S.Kennedy, R.Robinson, R.Piltz,
G.Davidson, M.Perry, G.Horton, Bragg Institute, Australian Nuclear
Science and Technology Organisation, Sydney, AUS

09:20am to 09:40am *0.3K-- 900K Gas-Loading Apparatus Capability at the
NIST Center for Neutron Research*\
[Juscelino Leão]{.underline}, D. Dender, and C. M. Brown, NCNR/NIST,
Gaithersburg, MD USA

09:40am to 10:00am *Sample Environments for Controlled Gas Deposition up
to 10 kbar*\
[Klaus Kiefer,]{.underline} D. Wallacher and M. Meissner, BENSC/HMI,
Berlin, GER.

10:00am to 10:30am Break and Discussions -- Building 360, L145

**Session X Chair: Lou Santodonato**

10:30am to 10:50am *Rheo-SANS at NIST Center for Neutron Research*\
[Bryan Greenwald]{.underline}, NCNR/NIST, Gaithersburg, MD USA

10:50am to 11:10am *The New Motion Control Systems for TS2\
*[Dennis Cowdery]{.underline}, ISIS/RAL, Oxfordshire, GBR

11:10am to 12:00pm Workshop Summary -- Ken Volin and Michael Meissner\
Announcement of location of next workshop!

12:00pm Conclusion of Workshop