====== Panda ======

Hi and welcome on PANDA! We hope that you will like our instrument. 

PANDA team - Astrid, Chris, Alistair, Mario, Michal, Anton, Nikolaos and Sebastian
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===== News =====
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  * Preparing the upcoming cycle with thermal neutrons: Installing Cu-111-mono to reach higher energy transers, and Si-111-mono.
  * We had a very successful I2NS workshop: https://workshops.ill.fr/event/252/ - thanks to all speakers, participants and organizers!.
  * MLZ has a slogan: Neutrons for Research and Innovation
  * Rajesh Dutta published his results on multiferroic Ba2CoGe2O7 under external magnetic fields. Thanks to  Rajesh and the team: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L020403. 
  * Please find the extended abstract here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07716
  * Mario presented part of the PAND-AI work at CAMERA-workshop: “Autonomous Discovery in Science and Engineering”. Please find the extended abstract here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07716 
  * We moved to the offices in building UYL. Please note our new phone numbers.
  * The first 2021 paper was published by Anton, Dmytro and coworkers. Congratulations and many thanks! https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.024447
  * Igor left the Pand group. All the best, Igor!
  

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===== Publications =====
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Panda publications represent results on magnetic exciations and phonons in

  * strongly correlated systems
  * frustrated systems
  * superconductors
  * other model materials
  * multiferroic materials

and on hybridization effects of phonons and magnetic exciationa.\\

See also [[https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=de&user=4RLsNy4AAAAJ|PANDA at Google scholar]]!\\

[[panda:publications|Show Publications section]]
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===== Newcomer guide =====
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Are you new to PANDA? You should read our short introduction guide, where you will learn:

  * about our accessible energy-moment space
  * about our resolution limits
  * how to write a proposal
  * how to prepare sample and sample holder
  * [[panda:startexp|how to start your experiment]]
  * [[panda:map|how to reach us]]
    
[[guide|Learn more about PANDA]]
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===== Sample Environment =====
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Reaching low temperatures, high magnetic field and high pressures brings serious limitation for sample size and signal/noise ratio. If you consider application of special sample environment (everything below 3 K and/or with magnetic field), you should read about our limitations.

  * dimensions of the cryostats
  * usual cooling times
  * restrictions in movement and reachable Q/E space
  * remarks about available high field magnets

[[panda:se|Show Sample Environment section]]
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===== Simulations =====
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If you want to learn details about PANDA, the best is to use our prepared configuration files for neutron raytracing programs.

  * McStas code
  * Simres code

[[:panda:simulation|more in simulations section]]
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===== Data analysis =====
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After the experiment, you usually obtain only a few kB of well formated ASCII data produced by our instrument control software NICOS.

  * Matlab macro to read datafiles with metadata
  * Python macro to read datafiles with metadata
  * UFit suite to do advanced data analysis and evaluation
  * TAKIN for resolution calculation and fitting
[[:panda:analysis|data analysis section]]
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===== What's happening at PANDA =====

Check out Panda at X: https://x.com/PandaMlz
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===== Former members =====
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Here you can find the former members of the team and where to find them now:


  * Igor Radelytskyi - Infineon Technologies
  * Petr Cermak   -   Carles University Prague, Low temperature magnetic laboratory MGML      -        https://cermak.science/
  * Benqiong Liu   -   Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry: Mianyang, Sichuan, CN
  * Enrico Faulhaber   MLZ - TU München, Nicos team    https://nicos-controls.org/
  * Niels Pyka - GSI, Subproject SIS100/SIS18 (SIS) 
  * Roland Schedler - Experimental Physik, Siemens
  * Martin Rotter - www.mcphase.de
  * Peter Link MLZ - TU München, head of Neutron Optics  -  https://mlz-garching.de/wissenschaft-und-projekte/instrumentservice/neutronenoptik.html
  * Michael Loewenhaupt, TU Dresden - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/M_Loewenhaupt

  
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===== Long-term guests on Panda  =====
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List of long-term guests on Panda (when) and their current affiliation:

  * Anton Kulbakov (2019-2020), TU Dresden, 
  * Ben-Qiong Liu (2016-2018), now China Academy of Engineering Physics · Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, Mianyang 621900, People's Republic of China
  * Iwan Sumirat (2014), now Leader of Neutron Triple Axis Spectroscopy Group, Neutron Beam Technology Division, Center for Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia - BATAN, Indonesia
  * Peng Cheng (2013/14), now Department of Physics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Functional Materials & Micro-nano Devices, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
  * Shiliang Li, now Professor at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  
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