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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

News

  • 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!

Publications

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 PANDA at Google scholar!

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Newcomer guide

Are you new to PANDA? You should read our short introduction guide, where you will learn:

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Sample Environment

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

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Simulations

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

more in simulations section

Data analysis

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

data analysis section

What's happening at PANDA

Check out Panda at X: https://x.com/PandaMlz

Former members

Here you can find the former members of the team and where to find them now:

Long-term guests on Panda

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